Senegal: Boeing 737 accident leaves 10 injured at Dakar airport

An accident involving a Boeing 737-300 left 10 people injured Thursday at Blaise Diagne Airport in Dakar, Senegal. The incident occurred when the plane was trying to land. At that moment, the plane suffered a problem with acceleration and, as a result, went off the runway, leaving shocking images that soon went viral on social media:

As reported by the BBC, the incident, which occurred at 1 a.m., left 11 people injured, four of them seriously, who were traveling aboard the Air Senegal flight bound for Bamako, Mali. "Our plane just caught fire," one of the passengers, Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sisokko, wrote on Facebook. The post was accompanied by a video in which the device is seen on fire while the rest of the passengers try to get to safety:

One of the pilots of the Boeing 737 injured after the accident

Senegalese Transportation Minister El Malick Ndiaye reported that a total of 85 people were traveling aboard the Boeing 737-300, operated by Transair. Of them, 79 were passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.

One of the pilots is among the injured, although the severity of his condition is unknown. All the injured were taken to a hospital, while the rest of the passengers, Ndiaye said, went "to the hotel for rest and proper care."

Following the accident, Blaise Diagne's airspace was closed and all flights to or from the Senegalese airport were canceled. However, after verifying that the space is safe, the Senegalese airport resumed its activity at 9:30 a.m., as reported on social media:

Meanwhile, in his statement, Minister El Malick Ndiaye assured that he had ordered the Bureau of Investigation and Analysis (BEA) to open "an investigation to determine the causes of the accident."

The event with this Boeing 737-300 occurred just a day after another of the airline's aircraft had a . On that occasion, the incident ended without injuries but with the plane, operated by FedEx, losing its two front wheels.