Air Algérie crash: François Hollande offers condolences – video

The French president confirms that the wreckage of flight AH5017 has been found in the Gossi area of Mali. François Hollande says none of the 118 people on board the plane survived, and says 51 of those were French nationals. The flight was announced missing when it did not arrive in Algiers at its scheduled time on Thursday

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