At least 10 people, including the pilot, were injured when a Boeing passenger plane overran the runway while aborting takeoff from Senegal’s international airport in the outskirts of Dakar on Thursday, the country’s transport minister said.
Emergency services were deployed to evacuate the passengers, and those who were injured were receiving medical care, Mr. Ndiaye said.
Footage from social media and published by The Associated Press showed passengers going down emergency slides in the dark as one side of the aircraft was in flames.
“Our plane just caught fire,” wrote Cheick Siriman Sissoko, a musical artist from Mali, in a post on Facebook, The A.P.
He could not be reached by telephone later on Thursday.
Persons:
Blaise, Malick Ndiaye, Ndiaye, ”, Siriman
Organizations:
Boeing, Air, Transair, Blaise Diagne, The Associated Press, Facebook
Locations:
Dakar, Air Senegal, Bamako, Mali