Boeing 737 skids off runway in Senegal, injuring 10
- Transair Boeing 737 skidded off the runway at Blaise Diagne Airport
- 10 were injured, including one pilot, and treated at a hospital
- This incident marks the third involving a Boeing airline this week
DAKAR, SENEGAL – MAY 09: Boeing 737 of Transair en route to Bamako skids off runway at Dakar International Airport in Senegal on May 09, 2024. (Photo by Stringer/Anadolu via Getty Images)
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(NewsNation) — A Boeing 737 plane skidded off a runway at an airport in Senegal, injuring 10 people, including one of the plane’s pilots, officials said Thursday.
In a statement, Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye said the aircraft overran the runway following an aborted takeoff at Senegal’s Blaise Diagne International Airport, heading for Bamako, Mali.
Ndiaye said 85 people — 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew — were on the Air Senegal flight operated by Transair.
“Our plane just caught fire,” Cheick Siriman Sissoko, a Malian musician, wrote 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 injured were treated at a hospital, while the others were taken to a hotel.
This marks the third incident involving a Boeing airline this week.
Also on Thursday, 190 people were evacuated from a plane in Turkey after one of its tires burst during landing at a southern airport, Turkey’s transportation ministry said. No one was hurt.
On Wednesday, a Boeing 767 cargo aircraft belonging to FedEx Express made an emergency landing at Istanbul Airport after its front landing gear failed. No one was injured and the crew safely evacuated the aircraft.
The Associated Press and Reuters contributed to this report.
