Air Algerie flight crashes in Mali

A commercial jetliner which disappeared from radar over western Africa just 50 minutes after takeoff this morning, has crashed according to an Burkina Faso airport official. Air Algerie Flight 5017 left Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso at 1:17 a.m. local time en route to Algiers, Algeria, but was last sited at 01:55. Burkina Faso Transport Minister Jean…