Air Algérie Flight 5017
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The accident aircraft in January 2013
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| Accident summary | |
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| Date | 24 July 2014 |
| Summary | High altitude stall, icing on engine pressure sensors, pilot error |
| Site | Southeast of Gossi, Mali |
| Passengers | 110 |
| Crew | 6 |
| Fatalities | 116 (all) |
| Survivors | 0 |
| Aircraft type | McDonnell Douglas MD-83 |
| Operator | Swiftair for Air Algérie |
| Registration | EC-LTV |
| Flight origin | Ouagadougou Airport, Burkina Faso |
| Destination | Houari Boumediene Airport, Algiers, Algeria |
Air Algérie Flight 5017 (AH5017/DAH5017) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed in Mali, near Gossi, on 24 July 2014. The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 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 accident was the fourth-deadliest aviation incident in 2014, behind Indonesia AirAsia Flight 8501, Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 and Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. It was also the second deadliest accident involving the MD-83, just behind Dana Air Flight 992 which crashed in Lagos, Nigeria, and the seventh deadliest in the MD-80 series. Malian authorities conducted an investigation with the assistance of France's Bureau d'Enquêtes et d'Analyses pour la Sécurité de l'Aviation Civile.
French BEA issued a preliminary report into the crash and could not determine the cause of the crash as the CVR was severely damaged that it could not be used for the investigation. Investigators later used the FDR for the investigation. The final report was published by the BEA on 22 April 2016. The report concluded that both pilots did not recognize that their plane was in danger of icing. They did not turn the de-icing equipment on and subsequently the aircraft crashed onto the desert. BEA then issued several recommendations to Air Algerie, Federal Aviation Administration, and Burkina Faso and Malian Government, which were primarily on the Search and Rescue Operation and icing training in aviation.
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