Air Algerie flight AH 5017 crash

Debris is seen at the crash site of Air Algerie flight AH5017 near the northern Mali town of Gossi.  (AFP/Getty Images)

Debris is seen at the crash site of Air Algerie flight AH5017 near the northern Mali town of Gossi.  (AFP/Getty Images)

French Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier, center, flanked by Patrick Gandil, left, head of the Directorate General for Civil Aviation, leave after a crisis meeting at the DGAC headquarters in Paris, some hours after an Air Algerie plane carrying about 110 people on board after taking off from Burkina Faso for Algiers.  (Francois Guillot, AFP/Getty Images)

A police officer stands at the entrance of a crisis cell at the Roissy-Charles-de-Gaulle airport in Roissy-en-France, Paris’ northern suburb, after an Air Algerie plane carrying 50 French nationals went missing after taking off from Burkina Faso for Algiers. France’s civil aviation body said crisis cells had been set up at the airports of Paris and Marseille.  (Kenzo Tribouillard, AFP/Getty Images)

An MD-83 aircraft of Spanish company Swiftair is seen before take off at Paris’ Orly Airport. An Air Algerie plane with more than 110 people on board including French and Spanish nationals went missing during a flight from Burkina Faso to Algiers, company sources and officials said. Aviation sources told AFP the aircraft was a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 leased from Spanish company Swiftair. Its six-member crew were all Spanish, said Spain’s airline pilots’ union Sepla, while Swiftair confirmed the aircraft had gone missing less than an hour after takeoff from Ouagadougou.   (SAMUEL DUPONT, AFP/Getty Images)