This from the BBC website http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/africa/2826593.stm Airliner crashes in Algeria A passenger plane with 97 people on board has crashed in southern Algeria. There are fears that everyone on board has been killed, although some reports are speaking of a sole survivor. The Air Algerie aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Tamanrasset at about 1545 local time (1445 GMT). The plane - said to be a Boeing 737 - was heading for the capital, Algiers, some 1,300 kilometres (800 miles) away. The Algerian Government has set up a crisis unit to deal with the emergency, and two ministers have left for the region, the French news agency AFP reports. Tamanrasset lies at the base of the Hoggar Mountains in the Sahara Desert.