A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, according to the transport minister and footage from a passenger that showed the aircraft on fire.
“Our plane just caught fire,” wrote Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko in a post on Facebook that showed passengers jumping down the emergency slides at night as flames engulfed one side of the aircraft. In the background, people can be heard screaming.
The Air Senegl flight operated by TransAir was carrying 79 passengers, two pilots, and four cabin staff,scheduled to arrive in Bamako, adjacent Mali, late on Wednesday, according to Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye.
The injured were taken to hospital for treatment while others were brought to a motel for restwhile the injured were treated at a hospital.There were no more details at this time. An inquiry for comment from Boeing was not answered.On X, now known as Twitter, images of the damaged aircraft on a grassy area surrounded by firefighting foam were shared by the Aviation Safety Network, which keeps track of airline mishaps.The pictures showed damage to a wing and what seemed to be one broken engine.
