Royal Air Maroc Flight Makes Emergency Landing in Algeria After Smoke Detected

The details are to be taken with caution as they are given, with photos, by a man who claims to be a passenger on the plane. "After 1.5 hours of flight, thick white smoke comes out of the air vents with a strong smell of burning," he writes on Facebook.

According to this passenger, "the pilot informs us that he has launched a distress message for an emergency landing in Algiers!".

In the photos posted on Facebook, we can see several Algerian police vehicles as well as firefighters, one of whom is equipped with a fire extinguisher.

The specialized website Radarbox24 confirms the landing of the Moroccan company’s plane in Algiers, as can be seen on the map below: