sun in my eyes
I agree with you about southern airways. First thing that came to my mind. Except with southern airways there were survivors, mayday call etc.
and it was during daylight.
the air algerie flight was at night, in marginal ATC land.
i can imagine losing both engines due to hail ingestion, aerodynamic stall and bam. flying at night, on instruments with both engines dead can lead to a stall (ask air france, and their engines were running). wonder if apu was running on line?
a deadstick landing at night in a sand storm/thunderstorm in the desert would be a lot of luck. southern airways was attempting a dead stick landing on a road in daylight.