ALGERIA: BODIES OF PILOT AND CABIN CREW KILLED IN AIR ALGERIE PLANE CRASH IN SAHARA, ARRIVE BACK IN ALGIERS

Record ID: 378827

  • Title: ALGERIA: BODIES OF PILOT AND CABIN CREW KILLED IN AIR ALGERIE PLANE CRASH IN SAHARA, ARRIVE BACK IN ALGIERS
  • Date: 7th March 2003
  • Summary: (U7) ALGIERS, ALGERIA (MARCH 7, 2003) (REUTERS) 1. VARIOUS OF EXTERIOR OF AIRPORT WITH BUSES 0.07 2. WIDE OF CROWD LOOKING AT PICTURES OF MISSING PEOPLE 0.11 3. CLOSE OF PHOTOS OF MISSING PEOPLE 0.15 4. SMV DISTRESSED WOMEN IN AIRPORT TERMINAL 0.17 5. VARIOUS, OF PEOPLE WAITING FOR NEWS 0.23 6. SLV AMBULANCES ARRIVI
  • Embargoed: 22nd March 2003 12:00
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  • Location: ALGIERS, ALGERIA
  • Country: Algeria
  • Reuters ID: LVA5HASMNKJBHTXJGVG02JAMEWFG
  • Story Text: Bodies of the pilots and cabine crew of the Air Algerie
    flight that crashed in the Sahara desert on Thursday have
    arrived back in Algiers.



    Family of the victims were waiting at the airport,
    and have taken the bodies with them to organise funerals.

    The bodies of the passengers haven't been brought back
    yet, as they are still being identified.

    The plane had been heading for Algiers on the
    Mediterranean coast in the north and was due to make a stop
    over at Ghardaia, 470 km (290 miles) south of the capital.

    It crashed near Tamanrasset in the middle of the Sahara in
    the far south of Algeria, 1,920 km (1,200 miles) from Algiers.

    The area, noted for its prehistoric cave paintings,
    attracts limited tourism, mainly from France and Germany,
    despite an Islamic insurgency which has racked Algeria for the
    past decade.

    In January, an unarmed man under the influence of
    drugs tried to hijack an Algerian airliner during a domestic
    flight but was overpowered by the crew.


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