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Ok, the multitude of airline calamities are starting to freak me out a bit...

 

Air Algerie plane carrying 116 disappears from radar

Doug Stanglin, USA TODAY 9:58 a.m. EDT July 24, 2014

 

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An MD-83 airplane.(Photo: Johan Töpel, Etsa/Corbis)

 

An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard — including 50 French citizens — disappeared from radar early Thursday over the Sahara during bad weather.

 

Air navigation services lost track of AH0517 about 50 minutes after takeoff at 0155 GMT (9:55 p.m. ET Wednesday), the Algerian news agency APS reports.

 

"In keeping with procedures, Air Algerie has launched its emergency plan," the APS agency quoted the airline as saying.

 

The pilot reportedly contacted air traffic control in Niamey, Niger, to change course because of a storm, the BBC reports.

 

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*UPDATE: Plane Crashes in Mali:
 

An Air Algerie flight en route to Algiers from Burkina Faso with 116 people aboard — including 50 French citizens — crashed Thursday in southeastern Mali, the airlines said.

 

The airlines said on its Twitter account that the plane went down about 40 miles from the Malian city of Gao. It did not give any additional details.

 

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Terrible.

As for recent events, I am not sure stastcally anything unusual is happening. It seems that way with recent coverage and given how unusual two of the crashes have been. This year might be slight above average, but not that significantly I don't think.

In any given year there are a dozen or more commercial airline major incidents around the world. Mostly in the developing world - like this one.

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Well, in terms of the sheer number of plane crashes this year, it's certainly down from recent years, or at least no worse ... but in terms of the passengers lost, it's a ton.

 

Most of the crashes reported on that list have like 5 killed out of 60 passengers or just injuries listed. The fact that we now have 4 crashes this year with 745 deaths (283 Malaysian, 298 Malaysian, 48 Taiwain, 116 Mali) ... that's a ton. 

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Well, in terms of the sheer number of plane crashes this year, it's certainly down from recent years, or at least no worse ... but in terms of the passengers lost, it's a ton.

Most of the crashes reported on that list have like 5 killed out of 60 passengers or just injuries listed. The fact that we now have 4 crashes this year with 745 deaths (283 Malaysian, 298 Malaysian, 48 Taiwain, 116 Mali) ... that's a ton.

The 10 year average is 720 deaths per year. This year will be high - obviously - but that is how average work. While high, I don't think we are looking at extrodenary numbers.

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