Algeria Plane Crash in Mali Due To Human Causes

Investigations and analysis office, which is investigating the Algeria plane crash in Mali in July 2014, killing 116 passengers, revealed on Friday, on the results of the investigation which confirmed the human causes in the crash.

Mali Transport Minister, Hamadou Hachem Koumari, asserted in a press conference that was held, in Bamako, to display the results of the investigation, that the flight crew did not activate the anti-freeze system on the engine level, and the pressure sensor engines stopped functioning.

McDonnell Douglas MD 83 plane was lent by Air Algérie from Spain to cover its flight, but it crushed in July 24, 2014, in the “Ghaussi” area of ​​Mali, while it was heading from the capital’s airport of “Ouagadougou” to Algiers, but it did not reach its destination.

Over 110 passengers including Algerians, French and Burkabies and Lebanese, and the plane’s crew which includes Six Spanish, were on board of the plane.

Search for the plane and its passengers, which began in Algeria since the announcement of its disappearance in Mali, resulted in finding parts of them in Ghaussi, about 100 km south-west of Gao, which is the largest city in the north of Mali and Kidal, as Algeria, Burkina Faso, Mali, Niger and France participated in the searches that made it possible to determine the parts of the plane that crashed, and they did not find any passengers alive, then Algeria immediately after the announcement of a breakdown in communication with the plane appointed a crisis cell and follow-up, and launched search operations for the plane and its 116 passengers including 6 Algerians.