The first images from the crash of the Air Algerie aircraft McDonnell Douglas MD83 airline were broadcast by the French media on Friday noon.
These are the first images taken by the region Gkosi in Mali, near the border with Burkina Faso, where the plane crashed on Thursday.
In an amateur video, which first aired in France 2, it appears that the aircraft wreckage are scattered over 500 meters from the crash site and that a huge crater has been created in the area, which shows the violence of the impact of the MD83 in soil.
In the video some of the remains of the unfortunate passengers of the aircraft which took off from Burkina Faso and was in Algeri are visible.
The aircraft carried a total of 118 passengers and crew, including 54 French citizens, fifteen of which will have had transfer to another place once reached Algeri for another flight to the airport Roissy-Charles de Gaulle of Paris.
Initially it was announced that the French who were on the plane were 50.
Unfortunately, as the French president Mr. Francois Hollande said on Friday none survived.
Hollande also stated the planes black box has been found and that the bad weather is more likely the cause of the crash.
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