The wreckage of an Air Algerie flight carrying 116 people has been spotted in northern Mali, Radio New Zealand reports.
Air Algerie, Algeria's national airline, says it lost contact with flight AH5017 early on Thursday morning about 50 minutes after it took off from Burkina Faso on what should have been a four-hour flight across the Sahara Desert.
The plane, with 110 passengers and six crew, is chartered by Air Algerie from the Spanish airline Swiftair.
Mali's president, Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, said wreckage of the flight had been spotted between the nothern towns of Aguelhoc and Kidal.
Two French Mirage warplanes had been scouring the vast desert area around the northern Malian city of Gao for the aircraft, which had 51 French nationals on board.