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Air Algérie Flight 5017, the Glossary

Air Algérie Flight 5017 was a scheduled international passenger flight from Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, to Algiers, Algeria, which crashed near Gossi, Mali, on 24 July 2014.^[1]

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Abidjan

Abidjan (N'ko: ߊߓߌߖߊ߲߬) is the largest city and the former capital of Côte d'Ivoire.

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Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civile du Mali

Agence Nationale de l'Aviation Civil (ANAC MALI, "National Civil Aviation Agency") is the civil aviation authority of Mali.

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Aguelhok

Aguelhok also known as Adjelhoc (the official name) is a rural commune and village in the Kidal Region of eastern Mali in the Tessalit Cercle.

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Air Algérie

Air Algérie SpA (الخطوط الجوية الجزائرية) is the flag carrier of Algeria, with its head office in the Immeuble El-Djazair in Algiers.

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Air Florida Flight 90 was a scheduled U.S. domestic passenger flight operated by Air Florida from Washington National Airport (now Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport) to Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, with an intermediate stopover at Tampa International Airport. Air Algérie Flight 5017 and Air Florida Flight 90 are airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice.

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Air France Flight 447

Air France Flight 447 (AF447/AFR447) was a scheduled international passenger flight from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. Air Algérie Flight 5017 and Air France Flight 447 are airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice.

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Air Ontario Flight 1363

Air Ontario Flight 1363 was a scheduled Air Ontario passenger flight which crashed near Dryden, Ontario, on 10 March 1989 shortly after takeoff from Dryden Regional Airport. Air Algérie Flight 5017 and Air Ontario Flight 1363 are airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice.

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Aircraft lease

Aircraft leases are leases used by airlines and other aircraft operators.

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Aircraft registration

An aircraft registration is a code unique to a single aircraft, required by international convention to be marked on the exterior of every civil aircraft.

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Algeria

Algeria, officially the People's Democratic Republic of Algeria, is a country in the Maghreb region of North Africa. It is bordered to the northeast by Tunisia; to the east by Libya; to the southeast by Niger; to the southwest by Mali, Mauritania, and Western Sahara; to the west by Morocco; and to the north by the Mediterranean Sea.

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Algiers

Algiers (al-Jazāʾir) is the capital and largest city of Algeria, located in the north-central part of the country.

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American Eagle Flight 4184

American Eagle Flight 4184, officially operating as Simmons Airlines Flight 4184, was a scheduled domestic passenger flight from Indianapolis, Indiana, to Chicago, Illinois, United States. Air Algérie Flight 5017 and American Eagle Flight 4184 are airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice.

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Angle of attack

In fluid dynamics, angle of attack (AOA, α, or \alpha) is the angle between a reference line on a body (often the chord line of an airfoil) and the vector representing the relative motion between the body and the fluid through which it is moving.

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Atmospheric icing

Atmospheric icing occurs in the atmosphere when water droplets suspended in air freeze on objects they come in contact with.

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Audio mixing

Audio mixing is the process by which multiple sounds are combined into one or more audio channels.

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Autopilot

An autopilot is a system used to control the path of an aircraft, marine craft or spacecraft without requiring constant manual control by a human operator.

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Avianca

Avianca S.A. (acronym in Spanish for Aerovias del Continente Americano S.A., "Airways of the American Continent", and stylized as avianca since October 2023), is the largest airline in Colombia.

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Bamako

Bamako is the capital and largest city of Mali, with a 2022 population of 4,227,569.

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Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety

The Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) is an agency of the French government, responsible for investigating aviation accidents and incidents and making safety recommendations based on what is learned from those investigations.

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Burkina Faso

Burkina Faso is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Comair Flight 3272

Comair Flight 3272 was a Comair flight from Cincinnati to Detroit on Thursday, January 9, 1997. Air Algérie Flight 5017 and Comair Flight 3272 are airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice.

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Coordinated Universal Time

Coordinated Universal Time (UTC) is the primary time standard globally used to regulate clocks and time.

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Directorate General for Civil Aviation (France)

The Directorate General for Civil Aviation (Direction générale de l'aviation civile, DGAC) is the French civil aviation authority.

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Engine pressure ratio

The engine pressure ratio (EPR) is the total pressure ratio across a jet engine, measured as the ratio of the total pressure at the exit of the propelling nozzle divided by the total pressure at the entry to the compressor.

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Federal Aviation Administration

The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is a U.S. federal government agency within the U.S. Department of Transportation which regulates civil aviation in the United States and surrounding international waters.

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Flash Airlines

Flash Airlines was a private charter airline operating out of Cairo, Egypt that was part of the Flash Group tourism company.

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Flight level

In aviation, a flight level (FL) is an aircraft's altitude using the International Standard Atmosphere, expressed in hundreds of feet or metres.

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Flight recorder

A flight recorder is an electronic recording device placed in an aircraft for the purpose of facilitating the investigation of aviation accidents and incidents.

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FlightGlobal

FlightGlobal is an online news and information website which covers the aviation and aerospace industries.

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François Hollande

François Gérard Georges Nicolas Hollande (born 12 August 1954) is a French politician who served as President of France from 2012 to 2017.

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France

France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.

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France 24

France 24 (vingt-quatre in French) is a French publicly-funded international news television network based in Paris.

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French Armed Forces

The French Armed Forces (Forces armées françaises) are the military forces of France.

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Gao

Gao, or Gawgaw/Kawkaw, is a city in Mali and the capital of the Gao Region.

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General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper

The General Atomics MQ-9 Reaper (sometimes called Predator B) is an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV, one component of an unmanned aircraft system (UAS)) capable of remotely controlled or autonomous flight operations, developed by General Atomics Aeronautical Systems (GA-ASI) primarily for the United States Air Force (USAF).

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Germany

Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.

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Gossi

Gossi is a town and rural commune in the Cercle of Gourma-Rharous of the Tombouctou Region of Mali, lying northeast of Hombori and southwest of Gao.

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Hezbollah

Hezbollah (Ḥizbu 'llāh) is a Lebanese Shia Islamist political party and paramilitary group, led since 1992 by its Secretary-General Hassan Nasrallah.

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Hombori

Hombori is a small town and rural commune in the Cercle of Douentza in the Mopti Region of Mali.

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Houari Boumediene Airport

Houari Boumediene International Airport (Maṭār Hawwārī Būmadyan al-Duwaliyy), also known as Algiers Airport or Algiers International Airport, is the main international airport serving Algiers, the capital of Algeria.

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Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta

Ibrahim Boubacar Keïta (29 January 1945 – 16 January 2022), often known by his initials IBK, was a Malian politician who served as the president of Mali from September 2013 to August 2020, when he was forced to resign in the 2020 Malian coup d'état.

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Ice protection system

In aeronautics, ice protection systems keep atmospheric moisture from accumulating on aircraft surfaces, such as wings, propellers, rotor blades, engine intakes, and environmental control intakes.

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Icing conditions

In aviation, icing conditions are atmospheric conditions that can lead to the formation of water ice on an aircraft.

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Indicated airspeed

Indicated airspeed (IAS) is the airspeed of an aircraft as measured by its pitot-static system and displayed by the airspeed indicator (ASI).

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Khartoum

Khartoum or Khartum (al-Khurṭūm, pronounced al.xur.tˤuːm) is the capital of Sudan.

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Kidal

Kidal (Tuareg Berber: ⴾⴸⵍ, KDL, Kidal) is a town and commune in the desert region of northern Mali.

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La Chaîne Météo

La Chaîne Météo (lit. The Weather Channel) is a French TV channel, broadcasting weather forecasts 24 hours a day.

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Le Figaro

() is a French daily morning newspaper founded in 1826.

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Lebanon

Lebanon (Lubnān), officially the Republic of Lebanon, is a country in the Levant region of West Asia.

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List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft

This list of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft includes notable events that have a corresponding Wikipedia article.

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List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents

This article lists the deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents involving commercial passenger and cargo flights, military passenger and cargo flights, or general aviation flights that have been involved in a ground or mid-air collision.

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List of intelligence agencies of France

This is a list of current and former French intelligence agencies.

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Luc-Adolphe Tiao

Luc-Adolphe Tiao (born 4 June 1954) is a Burkinabé politician and journalist who was Prime Minister of Burkina Faso from 2011 to 2014.

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Luxembourg

Luxembourg (Lëtzebuerg; Luxemburg; Luxembourg), officially the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, is a small landlocked country in Western Europe.

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Mali

Mali, officially the Republic of Mali, is a landlocked country in West Africa.

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McDonnell Douglas MD-80

The McDonnell Douglas MD-80 is a series of five-abreast single-aisle airliners developed by McDonnell Douglas.

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Mesoscale convective system

A mesoscale convective system (MCS) is a complex of thunderstorms that becomes organized on a scale larger than the individual thunderstorms but smaller than extratropical cyclones, and normally persists for several hours or more.

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Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou or Wagadugu is the capital of Burkina Faso, and the administrative, communications, cultural and economic centre of the nation.

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Pratt & Whitney JT8D

The Pratt & Whitney JT8D is a low-bypass (0.96 to 1) turbofan engine introduced by Pratt & Whitney in February 1963 with the inaugural flight of the Boeing 727.

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Senegal

Senegal, officially the Republic of Senegal, is the westernmost country in West Africa, situated on the Atlantic Ocean coastline. Senegal is bordered by Mauritania to the north, Mali to the east, Guinea to the southeast and Guinea-Bissau to the southwest. Senegal nearly surrounds The Gambia, a country occupying a narrow sliver of land along the banks of the Gambia River, which separates Senegal's southern region of Casamance from the rest of the country.

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Serial number

A serial number is a unique identifier used to uniquely identify an item, and is usually assigned incrementally or sequentially.

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Spain

Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.

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Spanair

Spanair S.A. was a Spanish airline, with its head office in the Spanair Building in L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, near Barcelona.

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Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines, Inc., stylized as spirit, is a major American ultra-low cost airline headquartered in Dania Beach, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area.

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Stall (fluid dynamics)

In fluid dynamics, a stall is a reduction in the lift coefficient generated by a foil as angle of attack increases.

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Swiftair

Swiftair S.A. is an airline whose headquarters are in Madrid, Spain.

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Telecommunications in Burkina Faso

Telecommunications in Burkina Faso include radio, television, fixed and mobile telephones, and the Internet.

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Tessalit

Tessalit is a rural commune and village in the Kidal Region of Mali.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Herald (Zimbabwe)

The Herald is a state-owned daily newspaper published in Harare, the capital of Zimbabwe.

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The Times of Israel

The Times of Israel is an Israeli multi-language online newspaper that was launched in 2012.

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Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou

Ouagadougou Airport, officially Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, is an international airport in the center of the capital city of Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso.

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Tilemsi, Gao

Tilemsi is a commune in the Cercle of Gao in the Gao Region of south-eastern Mali.

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Turbulence

In fluid dynamics, turbulence or turbulent flow is fluid motion characterized by chaotic changes in pressure and flow velocity.

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United Nations

The United Nations (UN) is a diplomatic and political international organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations.

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United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur

The African Union-United Nations Hybrid Operation in Darfur (known by its acronym UNAMID) was a joint African Union (AU) and United Nations (UN) peacekeeping mission formally approved by United Nations Security Council Resolution 1769 on 31 July 2007, to bring stability to the war-torn Darfur region of Sudan while peace talks on a final settlement continue.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Algérie_Flight_5017

Also known as AH 5017, AH5017, AH5107, Air Algeria Flight 5017, Air Algerie AH5017, Air Algérie Flight AH 5017, Air Algérie 5017, Air Algérie Flight AH5017, DAH 5017, DAH5017, Flight 5017.

, List of accidents and incidents involving commercial aircraft, List of deadliest aircraft accidents and incidents, List of intelligence agencies of France, Luc-Adolphe Tiao, Luxembourg, Mali, McDonnell Douglas MD-80, Mesoscale convective system, Ouagadougou, Pratt & Whitney JT8D, Senegal, Serial number, Spain, Spanair, Spirit Airlines, Stall (fluid dynamics), Swiftair, Telecommunications in Burkina Faso, Tessalit, The Guardian, The Herald (Zimbabwe), The Times of Israel, Thomas Sankara International Airport Ouagadougou, Tilemsi, Gao, Turbulence, United Nations, United Nations–African Union Mission in Darfur, USAir Flight 405, West Caribbean Airways Flight 708, 2000 Marsa Brega Short 360 crash, 2023 Gao Ilyushin Il-76 crash.

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See also

2010s in Algiers

2014 disasters in Algeria

2014 disasters in Burkina Faso

2014 disasters in Mali

21st century in Ouagadougou

Accidents and incidents involving the McDonnell Douglas MD-83

Air Algérie accidents and incidents

Airliner accidents and incidents caused by ice

Algeria–Burkina Faso relations

Algeria–France relations

Algeria–Mali relations

Aviation accidents and incidents in 2014

Aviation accidents and incidents in Mali

Burkina Faso–France relations

Burkina Faso–Mali relations

France–Mali relations

July 2014 events in Mali

Mopti Region

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