Posted on 05/09/2024 8:04:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Panicked passengers were forced to flee the burning wreckage of a Boeing 737 when it skidded off the runway in Senegal early Thursday, video showed.
Eleven people were injured – four of them severely – when the Air Senegal flight headed from Bamako, Mali, crashed mid-lift off from Dakar’s Blaise Diagne airport shortly after 1 a.m. local time, the BBC reported.
One of the 78 passengers was seen scrambling away from the Boeing 737-300 aircraft as it went up in flames, one clip from the scene showed.
The plane – which Air Senegal chartered from the Senegalese carrier Transair – was seen with a large hole in the left engine as first responders extinguished the blaze.
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[were drilled wrong]
That doesn’t surprise me, but not about fuselages.
i take it black like my men
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