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Algeria: military plane crash-landing

Over 250 victims

An Ilyushin IL-76 Algerian Air Force (Al Quwwat al-Jawwiya al-Jaza'eriya) transport plane headed to Béchar's "Boudghene Ben Ali Lotfi" airport crashed shortly after take-off from the airport of Boufarik, in Algeria.According to the local media, in particular by "Ennahar" station in contact with some local civil defence sources, the aircraft would have crashed today at 08:00 am. It falled in an agricultural...

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Boufarik, Algeria, 04/11/2018 02:00
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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