Air Algérie crash: 'We should eliminate the missile hypothesis'

From Top stories – France 24 - International News 24/7 Thu Jul 24 2014, 17:40:09

An Air Algérie flight from Burkina Faso to Algeria with 116 people on board vanished from radar over northern Mali early Thursday. French aviation expert Pierre Duval explains why it is highly unlikely the plane was hit by a missile.

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