Boeing 737 skids off runway and engine bursts into flames
The left wing and engine reportedly caught fire during landing.
A Boeing 737 plane carrying 73 passengers skidded off the runway after its wing burst into flames.
Footage shows the aftermath of the crash with the Transair plane’s wing covered in fire suppressant foam at Dakar Airport in Senegal.
The left wing and engine reportedly caught fire during landing.
All 73 passengers were evacuated, with around 11 people injured.
Four have reportedly suffered serious injuries.
Flights have been suspended at the airport.
It comes after a Boeing 767 cargo plane narrowly avoided a crash landing after its front landing gear failed.
The plane, belonging to the American postal company Fedex was on a flight from Paris to Istanbul at around 7.55am yesterday morning.
Turkey’s Ministry of Transportation and Infrastructure said the pilot ‘notified Istanbul Airport air traffic control (ATC) that the front landing gear could not deploy’.
It landed only at the second attempt and its nose ‘pecked’ into the runway.
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