Updated 15.06
An Algerian passenger plane that went missing over northern Mali has crashed. 110 passengers and six crew were on board.
The plane disappeared from radar while flying from Burkina Faso. Air Algerie earlier confirmed it had lost contact with the plane.
The aircraft, operating as flight AH5017, was travelling from Burkina Faso in West Africa to Algiers.
The contact was lost just under an hour into the flight.
Ouagadougou Airport departures showed the flight left at 12:45am (local time) - but its arrival listing was removed from the listings at Boumediene Airport in Algiers.
The McDonnell Douglas MD-83 was missing for hours before news of its disappearance was made public.
The pilot asked for permission to change route because of a storm around 20 minutes into the flight, said Burkina Faso transport minister Jean-Bertin Ouedrago.
The airline says among other nationalities on board were 50 French, 24 Burkina Faso, 8 Lebanese, 6 Algerians, 5 Canadians, 4 Germans and 2 Luxembourg.
There was also one citizen each from Mali, Nigeria, Cameroon, Belgium, Ukraine, Romania and Switzerland.
The six crew members were Spanish, according to the Spanish pilots' union.
The plane left Ouagadougou Airport at 12:45pm
Two French fighter jets are searching for the plane.
A French army spokesman said "Two Mirage 2000 jets based in Africa were dispatched to try to locate the Air Algerie plane".
"They will search an area from its last known location along its probable route".
Flight AH5017 is owned by Spanish private airline Swiftair and operated by Air Algerie.
Swiftair said the aircraft took off from Burkina Faso at 1:17am local time and was supposed to land in Algiers at 5:10am local time, but never reached its destination.
Ouagadougou is in a nearly straight line south of Algiers, passing over Mali where unrest continues in the north of the country.
The airline has said in a tweet they lost contact with the aircraft 50 minutes after it took off.
It is understood that airlines had been warned not to fly over Mali in recent days. However, a senior French official said it is unlikely that fighters in Mali could shoot down a plane.
They are known to have shoulder-fired weapons which could not hit an aircraft travelling at a cruising altitude of some 33,000 feet.
France's Transport Minister Frederic Cuvillier said it is "likely" there were "many" French passengers on board.
Swiftair has a fleet of more than 30 planes flying in Europe, Africa and the Middle East.
The disappearance of AH5017 comes less than six months after Algeria's worst air disaster in a decade.
Some 77 people were killed when a military transport plane carrying members of the Algerian armed forces and their relatives hit a mountain and crashed near the village of Ouled Gacem in the east of the country.
