Senegal's transport minister, El Malick Ndiaye has disclosed that 10 people were injured when a Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off a runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital.
Footage from a passenger, Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko who was also on the flight showed the aircraft on fire, in a post on Facebook.
“Our plane just caught fire,” he wrote in the post.
The footage also showed passengers jumping down the emergency slides at night as flames engulfed one side of the aircraft, with people heard screaming in the background.
The Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir, according to Ndiaye, was headed to Bamako, in neighbouring Mali, late Wednesday with 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.
Meanwhile, the injured were being treated at an undisclosed hospital, with others taken to a hotel to rest.
No further details have been made available as at press time. Boeing did not respond to a request for comment.
The Aviation Safety Network, which tracks airline accidents, published on the X platform, photos of the damaged plane in a grassy field surrounded by fire suppressant foam. One engine looked to have blown apart and a wing was also damaged, according to the photos.
ASN is part of the Flight Safety Foundation, a nonprofit group that aims to promote safe air travel and track accidents.
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