DAKAR, Senegal (AP) — A Boeing 737-300 aircraft carrying 85 folks skidded off a runway on the airport in Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 folks, in accordance with the transport minister, an airline security group and pictures from a passenger that confirmed the plane on hearth.
“Our aircraft simply caught hearth,” wrote Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko in a submit on Fb that confirmed passengers leaping down the emergency slides at night time as flames engulfed one facet of the plane on the airport in Dakar. Within the background, folks might be heard screaming.
Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye mentioned the Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was headed to Bamako, in neighboring Mali, late Wednesday with 79 passengers, two pilots and 4 cabin crew. The airport reopened on Thursday morning after closing in a single day.
The injured had been being handled at a hospital, whereas the others had been taken to a resort to relaxation. Boeing referred a request for remark to the airways.
AP correspondent Karen Chammas reviews on a aircraft that skidded off a runway in Senegal.
It was the third incident involving a Boeing airplane this week. Additionally on Thursday, 190 folks had been safely evacuated from a aircraft in Turkey after considered one of its tires burst throughout touchdown at a southern airport, Turkey’s transportation ministry mentioned.
The corporate has been underneath intense stress since a door plug blew out of a Boeing 737 Max throughout an Alaska Airways flight in January, leaving a gaping gap within the aircraft. The Federal Aviation Administration in February gave Boeing 90 days to give you a plan to repair high quality issues and meet security requirements for constructing planes after the accident.
The incident has raised scrutiny of Boeing to the very best stage since two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 folks. A few dozen family of passengers who died within the second crash have been pushing the U.S. authorities to revive a prison fraud cost towards the corporate by figuring out that Boeing violated phrases of a 2021 settlement.
In April, a Boeing whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, testified at a congressional listening to that the corporate had taken manufacturing shortcuts to end up 787s as shortly as potential that would result in jetliners breaking up.
The Aviation Security Community, which tracks airline accidents, described the aircraft as a Boeing 737-38J. The community printed pictures of the broken aircraft in a grassy subject, surrounded by hearth suppressant foam, on X, previously often called Twitter. One engine appeared to have damaged aside and a wing was additionally broken, in accordance with the pictures.
ASN is a part of the Flight Security Basis, a nonprofit group that goals to advertise protected air journey and tracks accidents.
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