A airplane is seen after skidding off the runway at Blaise Diagne Worldwide Airport in Dakar, Senegal, on Might 9, 2024. | Picture credit score: REUTERS
A Boeing 737-3 airplane carrying 85 individuals skidded off the runway at Dakar airport, capital of Senegal, injuring 10 individuals, in response to the transport minister, an airline security group and pictures of a passenger exhibiting the airplane on fireplace.
“Our airplane simply caught fireplace,” Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko wrote in a Fb put up that confirmed passengers leaping down emergency slides at night time as flames engulfed one aspect of the airplane. Within the background you’ll be able to hear individuals screaming.
Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye stated the Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was heading to Bamako in neighboring Mali on Wednesday night time with 79 passengers, two pilots and 4 cabin crew.
The injured had been handled at a hospital, whereas the others had been taken to a lodge to relaxation. Boeing referred a request for remark to the airways.
It was the third incident involving a Boeing airplane this week. Additionally on Thursday, 190 individuals had been safely evacuated from a airplane in Turkey after one among its tires exploded throughout touchdown at a southern airport, Turkey’s Transport Ministry stated.
