Brahima Ouedraogo reported from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. AP journalists Ciaran Giles in Madrid, Sp

LATEST UPDATES: Five Quebec residents aboard Air Algerie flight Burkina Faso official says wreckage from missing travel to london england Air Algerie flight found in Mali Conflicting reports emerged about wreckage spotted in two different sites Prime Minister Stephen Harper said he was “saddened travel to london england to learn that Air Algérie Flight AH5017, carrying 110 passengers and six crew members on board, crashed in Mali.” travel to london england France s foreign minister and officials in Africa are saying the Air Algerie flight that has gone missing over Mali probably travel to london england crashed. French officials say a rainstorm over Mali may have been a factor in the crash
Jean-Pierre Prevost s daughter, 35-year-old Isabelle Prevost , was travelling with another Quebec family two adults, two children from Ouagadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, to Algiers travel to london england on their way to a relative s 50th wedding anniversary, Prevost told Global News .
The wreckage travel to london england of the Air Algeria plane that went missing Thursday has been found about 50 kilometres (31 miles) from the border of Burkina Faso near the village of Boulikessi in Mali, a presidential aide said.
We sent men with the agreement of the Mali government to the site and they found the wreckage of the plane with the help of the inhabitants of the area, said Gen. Gilbert Diendere, a close aide to president Blaise Compaore and head of the crisis committee set up to investigate the flight.
French travel to london england officials said a military unit has been sent to secure the site in Mali. A message posted Friday on the website of President Francois Hollande said the wreckage had been clearly identified despite the disintegration of the aircraft.
The MD-83 aircraft, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Algeria s flagship carrier, disappeared from radar less than an hour after it took off early Thursday from Burkina Faso s capital of Ouagadougou for Algiers.
Air navigation services lost track of the Swiftair MD-83 about 50 minutes after takeoff from Ougadougou, the capital of Burkina Faso, at 0155 GMT (9:55 p.m. EDT Wednesday), the official Algerian news agency said.
French fighter jets, U.N. peacekeepers and others had been hunting for signs of wreckage of the MD-83 plane in the remote region. Scattered separatist violence may hamper any eventual investigation into what happened.
Our thoughts and prayers are with the families and friends of the passengers and crew who lost their lives in this tragedy, he said in the statement, adding that it was confirmed Canadians travel to london england are among the victims.
The plane, owned by Spanish company Swiftair and leased by Air Algerie, disappeared from radar screens less than an hour after takeoff, en route from Burkina Faso s capital of Ouagadougou to Algiers.
An Algerian crisis unit meets at the Houari-Boumediene International Airport in Algiers on July 24, 2014 following the disappearance of an Air Algerie plane over Mali. An Air Algerie plane missing since early July 24 over Mali with 116 passengers and crew, including 50 French nationals, travel to london england on board probably crashed, French Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said.
Fliers around the globe have been on edge ever since Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 disappeared in March on its way to Beijing. Searchers have yet to find a single piece of wreckage from the jet with 239 people on board.
Earlier this week, U.S., European and Canadian airlines started cancelling flights to Tel Aviv after a rocket travel to london england landed near the city s airport. Finally, on Wednesday, a Taiwanese plane crashed during a storm, killing 48 people.
There have been two deaths for every 100 million passengers on commercial flights in the last decade, excluding acts of terrorism. Travellers are much more likely to die driving to the airport than stepping on a plane. There are more than 30,000 motor-vehicle deaths in the U.S. each year, a mortality rate eight times greater than that in planes.
A senior French official said it seems unlikely that fighters in Mali had the kind of weaponry that could shoot down a jetliner at cruising altitude. While al-Qaida s North Africa branch is believed to have an SA-7 surface-to-air missile, also known as MANPADS, most airliners would normally fly out of range of these shoulder-fired weapons. They can hit targets flying up to roughly 12,000-15,000 feet.
Swiftair, a private Spanish airline, said the plane was carrying 110 passengers and six crew, and left Burkina Faso for Algiers at 0117 GMT Thursday (9:17 p.m. EDT Wednesday), but had not arrived at the scheduled time of 0510 GMT (1:10 a.m. EDT Thursday). It said the crew included two pilots and four flight attendants. Canadians among passengers on Air Algerie
According travel to london england to the Spanish pilots union, the passengers include: 51 French. 27 Burkina Faso nationals, Eight Lebanese. Six Algerians. Five Canadians. Four Germans. Two Luxemburg nationals. One Swiss, one Belgian, one Egyptian, one Ukrainian, one Nigerian, one Cameroonian and one Malian.
The report that five Canadians were on the Air Algerie flight comes a week after a Canadian was among the nearly 300 who perished when a Malaysian passenger travel to london england plane was shot down over eastern Ukraine in an area controlled by pro-Russian rebels. Andrei Anghel was a 24-year-old medical student from Ajax, east of Toronto.
Swiftair took ownership of the plane on Oct. 24, 2012, after it spent nearly 10 months unused in storage, according to Flightglobal s Ascend Online Fleets, which sells and tracks information about aircraft. It has more than 37,800 hours of flight time and has made more than 32,100 takeoffs and landings.
The MD-83 is part of a series of jets built since the early 1980s by McDonnell Douglas, a U.S. company now owned by Boeing Co. The MD-80s are single-aisle planes that were a workhorse of the airline industry for short- and medium-range flights for nearly two decades. As jet fuel prices spiked in recent years, airlines have rapidly being replacing the jets with newer, travel to london england fuel-efficient models such as Boeing 737s and Airbus A320s.
Brahima Ouedraogo reported from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. AP journalists Ciaran Giles in Madrid, Spain, Elaine Ganley, Thomas travel to london england Adamson and Sylvie Corbet in Paris, and Edith M. Lederer travel to london england at the United Nations contributed to this report.