A Boeing airplane left a runway and ended up in flames in a field during a failed takeoff attempt on Thursday at an airport in West Africa.
The 737 skid injured at least 11 people, four of whom were sent to a hospital in the country of Senegal, the U.K.’s Independent reported.
According to multiple reports, the jet was owned by the Senegal-based airliner TransAir and Thursday’s incident shut down all operations at Blaise Diagne airport near the city of Dakar.
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The aircraft and its 85 passengers and crew members were headed for the city of Bamako in Mali but the plane never got off the ground.
One video of the mishap posted on Facebook by Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko shows a frantic scene
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