Wreckage spotted in desert after Air Algerie jet carrying 116 people crashes

Wreckage and remains from the missing air Algerie flight have been found in Mali, a Burkina Faso official said.

The Air Algerie flight with 110 passengers onboard, nearly half of them French citizens, crashed on Thursday after the jet disappeared over northern Mali en route from Burkina Faso to Algiers, an Algerian official said.