Medical plane collides with Boeing 737 in Senegal

The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency on
Monday, in Dakar, confirmed that a small medical
evacuation plane carrying seven people, which
crashed off Senegal, collided with a Boeing 737 over
the Atlantic Ocean.

It said in an earlier report that the reasons for the
crash of the Air Senegal aircraft, which was coming
from Burkina Faso and went down about 100
kilometres off Senegal's coast on Saturday, had been
unknown.

It said the medical evacuation plane was carrying a
Senegalese doctor and two nurses, two Congolese
and one Algerian national, as well as a French
patient.

It said authorities have dispatched a search and
rescue team to the area.
Meanwhile, the aviation agency had on Sunday
mistakenly reported that three people from Burkina
Faso had been on the flight. NAN


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