Another day, another Boeing screw up that injures 10 people. This one, in Senegal, had the jet skid off the runway, injuring eleven people. The plane also caught fire at the airport. But at least Boeing is focusing on that all important DEI stuff.
A Boeing 737 skidded off a runway at an airport in Senegal’s capital, injuring at least 11 people and grounding all operations while crew assisted with an evacuation of the aircraft.
The Air Senegal flight operated by TransAir was set to take off from the Blaise Diagne airport in the country’s capital of Dakar and fly to the city of Bamako in Mali on Thursday around midnight when the plane “came off the runway during its take-off phase,” Senegal Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye told reporters.
The plane skidded into the grass that flanked the runway, where crew were able to deploy the side exit ramps and ferry passengers off the plane as it started to burn.
“Our plane just caught fire at Blaise Diagne airport,” Cheick Siriman Sissoko, a Malian musician, wrote in a post on Facebook along with a video of rescue crews helping passengers evacuate the plane. An orange glow is visible under the jet.