An arrival information screen shows the delayed Air Algerie flight 5017 (top) at the Houari Boumediene airport near Algiers, Algeria, Thursday, July 24, 2014. An Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people from Burkina Faso to Algeria鈥檚 capital disappeared from radar early Thursday over northern Mali and 鈥減robably crashed鈥� according to the plane鈥檚 owner and government officials in France and Burkina Faso. AP PHOTO/SIDALI DJARBOUB
PARIS鈥揊rench Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius said Thursday authorities were looking into every possible cause for the disappearance of an Air Algerie plane over Mali with 51 nationals on board.
鈥淲e cannot, we must not exclude any hypothesis before having all elements (at our disposal),鈥� he said on French television, reiterating that the pilot of the plane鈥搘hich had at least 116 people on board in total鈥揾ad diverted its route due to bad weather.