Algerian military transport plan crashes killing 105 people, according to authorities

An Algerian military transport plane crashed Wednesday morning near the Boufarik military air base just south of the capital Algiers killing 105 people, according statement by civil defense carried by local media.

The Russian-built Ilyushin Il-76 was headed to the southwestern city of Bechar when it crashed, added the official APS agency. There has been no information about the cause of the crash.

Television images showed black smoke billowing from the crash site, some 20 miles south of Algiers on the way to the city of Blida, with rescue personnel milling the shattered plane.

The Ilyushin Il-76 was first built in the 1970s and used as a transport plane often in rugged underdeveloped parts of the world and has the ability to use unpaved runways.

In February 2014, another Algerian military transport plane, this time a U.S.-built C-130, crashed into a snowy mountain in eastern Algeria killing 77 people with just a single survivor.

Some of the victims of that crash were civilians as military dependents often used the planes to travel as well as troops.

In 2003 another Algerian C-130 transport crashed when its engine caught fire near the Boufarik air base, killing 10 people.

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