On 24 July 2014 , a McDonnell Douglas MD-83 aircraft flying Air Algérie Flight 5017 crashed southeast of Gossi with 116 people on board . The flight had left Ouagadougou and was headed to Algiers . Initial reports suggested a sandstorm might have been to blame . Gossi was also the site of the capture of Mimi Ould Baba Ould El Mokhtar , believed to be responsible for a terrorist attack in Grand-Bassam , by French military forces
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Air Algérie Flight 5017
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