Air Algérie Flight 5017 [SEP] point in time
Air Algérie Flight 5017
Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 twinjet with 110 passengers and 6 crew on board, operated by Swiftair for Air Algérie, disappeared from radar about fifty minutes after take-off. There were no survivors.
The French Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile (BEA), assisting the Malian authorities, published an investigation
Air Algérie Flight 5017, which had crashed in Mali.
Operational history Other users Germany.
Germany made a request to purchase five Reapers and four ground control stations, plus related support material and training. The request, being made through the Foreign Military Sales process, was presented to Congress through the Defense Security Cooperation Agency on 1 August 2008 and is valued at US$205 million. However, Germany did not go through with this procurement for the time being and decided to lease the IAI Heron offered by IAI and Rheinmetall instead,