The 737 aircraft skidded off the runway at Blaise Diagne at about 1 a.m. Thursday.Might 9, 2024, 9:39 AM ET• 2 min readLONDON — A Boeing 737-300 plane crashed all the way through takeoff at Senegal’s Blaise Diagne Global Airport, native officers stated.Air Senegal flight HC301, which was once operated via Transair, “overran the runway” at about 1:14 a.m. on Thursday, Senegal’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Land and Air Delivery stated in an observation in French.The airplane was once sporting 85 folks, together with two pilots and 4 cabin group participants, the ministry stated.A aircraft is noticed after skidding off the runway at Blaise Diagne Global Airport in Dakar, Senegal, Might 9, 2024.Zohra Bensemra/ReutersTen folks have been injured, the ministry stated. 4 folks have been in life-threatening situation, a sergeant with the Senegalese army stated.Movies circulating on-line perceived to display a Transair aircraft with the serial quantity 6V-AJE mendacity on a grassy financial institution. The left engine of the aircraft seems broken and the comb on the subject of the runway looked to be coated with Aqueous Movie Forming Foam.Blaise Diagne is the principle airport servicing Dakar, the Senegalese capital. The combat have been destined for Bamako, Mali.ABC Information’ Joe Simonetti contributed to this document.
