Algerian aviation authorities have lost contact with Air Algerie flight AH5017 en route from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso to Algiers. Around 50 minutes after take-off all contact was lost. Air Algerie leased the aircraft earlier this month from Spanish ACMI firm, Swiftair. The aircraft was an MD-83, reg EC-JUG (msn 49847), according to the Airline Economics 24/7 database. The Algerian national carrier has also wet-leased an A330-300 from AirAsia X and two A340-300s from Hi Fly. Following on from yesterday’s editorial regarding Chinese airspace, we can confirm that a trusted contact of a reader (our thanks to him) notes that

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