A Boeing 737 plane carrying 85 people skidded off the runway at the airport in Dakar, Senegal’s capital, injuring 10 people, a statement from the country’s transport minister said in a statement on Thursday.
El Malick Ndiaye, the transport minister, said the Air Sénégal flight operated by TransAir was headed to Bamako late on Wednesday carrying 79 passengers, two pilots and four cabin crew.
Runway excursions are the most common kind of airplane accident. This is the kind of incident that is only international news now because boeing is under scrutiny. Had this happened a few years ago this incident would be easily ignorable, only be reported locally or in aviation related news publications.
The aircraft involved was a 737-300, a model two generations before the max, on a production run that started in 1981, 14 years before the merger with mcdonald douglas. This incident is unlikely to be related to the current issues at boeing.