A Boeing 737-300 with 85 occupants skidded off the runway after trying to abort takeoff at Dakar international airport, in Senegal, this Thursday morning (9).
The incident left a pilot and 10 of the 79 passengers on board injured and caused the closure of the airport in the Senegalese capital, which remained inoperative until the last update of this report.
According to the newspaper “Le Monde”, four of the injured are in serious condition.
According to the administration of Blaise Diagne airport, on the outskirts of Dakar, the aircraft, chartered by Air Senegal from the company Transair, skidded during takeoff.
Images posted on the social network X (formerly Twitter) show a Boeing 737 with the Transair logo completely off the runway, with the left wing destroyed. It is possible to see foam spread across the ground, which indicates firefighters are working to combat a possible fire.
The flight was destined for the city of Bamako, in Mali.
According to the country’s Ministry of Air Transport, the injured were taken to a hospital, while the other occupants went to a hotel. An investigation was opened to determine the causes of the accident.
The Boeing 737-300 are part of the second generation of the model, considered the most successful in the history of commercial aviation. This generation began flying in the 1980s and production stopped in 2000.
According to the website planespotters.net, the aircraft involved in the accident was delivered in November 1994 by Boeing to a Romanian airline. She arrived in the Transair fleet in November 2023.
Boeing had not yet commented on the plane’s skid in Dakar until the last update of this report.
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