French Officials Send soldiers To Guard Air Algerie AH 5017 Plane Crash site
French Officials have Dispatched a Military Unit to secure the site in restive northern Mali where an Air Algerie plane crashed with 116 people aboard. France's interior minister said Friday that Terrorism cannot be excluded as a cause for the Tragedy though it was likely due to bad weather. The MD-83 Aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algerie's flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off early Thursday from Burkina Faso's capital of Ouagadougou for Algiers. A message posted Friday on the website of President Francois Hollande said the wreckage had been clearly Identified near the Burkina Faso border despite the disintegration of the Aircraft. We think the plane went down due to weather conditions, but no hypothesis can be excluded as long as we don't have the results of an investigation, French Interior Minister Bernard Cazeneuve told RTL radio. Terrorist groups are in the zone We know these groups are Ho...