The mother, father and two children lived in a suburb of Montreal and were returning home with a friend — a resident of nearby Sherbrooke, Quebec — from another couple’s 50th wedding anniversary celebrations in Burkina Faso, said French-language broadcaster LCN.

An Air Algerie official in Montreal was not able to confirm the reports.

Flight AH5017, which originated in Ouagadougou and was bound for Algiers went missing amid reports of heavy storms, company sources and officials said. The wreckage of the plane has been found near the border of Burkina Faso. But no words yet about the 116 passengers and crew.