The world awoke this morning to news of yet another commercial airline disaster. And once again it was a flight over a conflict zone. In this case where theres been rebel fighting in africa. But there was also Severe Weather in the area where the plane was last heard from and the wreckage was later spotted. But for folks who fly in the middle of the summer season, its another in a recent series of disasters just in these past several days after what seemed like a long period of safety in the skies. Its where we begin here tonight with nbcs tom costello. Reporter its been a rough six months for international aviation, all told nearly 600 people have died. Now, another crash. Air algerie, flight 5017 an md83 left burkina faso in africa and crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. Like ukraine, northern mali is a war zone. In june faa warned pilots warned to fly below 24,000 feet citing the risk to include shoulderfired man portable air defense systems. Its not clear what happened to flig
The world awoke this morning to news of yet another commercial airline disaster. And once again it was a flight over a conflict zone. In this case where theres been rebel fighting in africa. But there was also Severe Weather in the area where the plane was last heard from and the wreckage was later spotted. But for folks who fly in the middle of the summer season, its another in a recent series of disasters just in these past several days after what seemed like a long period of safety in the skies. Its where we begin here tonight with nbcs tom costello. Reporter its been a rough six months for international aviation. All told, nearly 600 people have died. Now, another crash. Air algerie, flight 5017 an md83 flown by swift air, left burkina faso in africa and crashed 50 minutes later in bad weather. Like ukraine, northern mali is a war zone. In june faa warned pilots warned to fly below 24,000 feet citing the risk of antiaircraft fire to include shoulderfired, manportable air defense sy