Dakar International Airport in Senegal was closed after activating emergency protocols
A plane with 78 passengers skidded off the runway before takeoff at Senegal’s main airport this Thursday, injuring 11 people, including the pilot, according to Reuters.
According to the agency, the airport was closed after activating emergency protocols.
“For now, it is closed… The reopening of the airport is scheduled for the next few hours”, reads the airport’s statement.
The accident happened at around 01:00 (local time), at Blaise Diagne airport, in Diass, when the Transair Boeing 737-300, chartered by Air Senegal, was preparing to fly to Mali.
On social media, several images show a plane with the logo of the Senegalese airline Transair on the grass surrounded by fire-fighting foam.
According to Senenews, technical problems in the gas-hydraulic system were identified as a probable cause.
