Eleven people were injured this Thursday, four of them seriously, when a plane chartered by the company Air Senegal left the runway during takeoff, an incident which led to a closure of the Blaise-Diagne airport in Diass, near of Dakar, announced the manager of this infrastructure.
11 injured, including 4 serious
The plane chartered from a private company, Transair, and bound for Bamako, “exited the runway during its takeoff phase this Thursday, May 9, 2024 around 1 a.m.,” an incident that left “11 injured, including 4 serious “among the 78 passengers”, says https://twitter.com/papaaliounesar4/status/1788497847047876858 the airport manager, “closed while waiting for the planned arrangements to be made”.
According to the airport manager, 78 passengers were on board the aircraft, a Boeing 737-300.
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The circumstances of the accident remain to be determined. An investigation is open.
This accident occurs a few hours after the emergency landing of a Boeing in Istanbul. The FedEx cargo plane, which left Paris, had to land without a front wheel.
Accidents, failures: Boeing, a company in the middle of a crisis
Boeing has had a series of accidents for several months. The American aircraft manufacturer announced the departure of its general director after a series of failures which have shaken the reputation of the company in recent months: at the beginning of January 2024, the window of a 737 Max plane from Alaska Airlines was damaged. flew away after takeoff; at the beginning of March, a Boeing 777 lost a wheel in flight, then a Boeing 787 encountered a “technical incident” in mid-flight, causing around fifty injuries…
Latest incidents to date: this Wednesday, May 8, an Air France Boeing 787-900 bound for the United States was diverted to Canada because of “the appearance of a hot smell felt in the cabin”. The same day, a FedEx Boeing 767 cargo plane, which left Paris, had to land urgently, without a front wheel, at Istanbul airport.
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