Posted on 05/09/2024 8:04:28 AM PDT by Red Badger
Panicked passengers were forced to flee the burning wreckage of a Boeing 737 when it skidded off the runway in Senegal early Thursday, video showed.
Eleven people were injured – four of them severely – when the Air Senegal flight headed from Bamako, Mali, crashed mid-lift off from Dakar’s Blaise Diagne airport shortly after 1 a.m. local time, the BBC reported.
One of the 78 passengers was seen scrambling away from the Boeing 737-300 aircraft as it went up in flames, one clip from the scene showed.
The plane – which Air Senegal chartered from the Senegalese carrier Transair – was seen with a large hole in the left engine as first responders extinguished the blaze.
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“forced to flee”
Who wanted to stay in the plane?
I liked the 737-300 up to the -800 series
NOT Max
EXCEPT for that vertical stabilizer valve thing - they fixed that long ago
I flew to Connecticut for software training - that day USAir 427 went down
The pilots and passengers never stood a chance - very sad 😞☹️😦😭
That FedEx plane was about 10 years old. Can't blame that on Boeing, but on FedEx maintenance.
This 737-300 is at least 15 years old and maybe older. The 737-300 was built from 1979 to 1990. Again, a maintenance issue, not a design flaw.
Obviously that scene was pre-9/11.
“Transair... It *identified* as a plane.”
Nice.
There must be. Some of the airplanes fly.
This 737-300 is at least 15 years old and maybe older. The 737-300 was built from 1979 to 1990. Again, a maintenance issue, not a design flaw.
You need to bone up on your math. 1990 was 34 years ago. I know it seems just like yesterday.
“I wonder if maybe Air Senegal is skimping the maintenance”
That’s probably the cause but there’s a campaign against Boeing going on now so you won’t hear much about that possibility.
LOL!
Both incidents are the latest in a series of slip-ups for Boeing
Journalists are stupid. Once again, Operations and Maintenance problems are on the owner/operator, not the manufacturer.
One might like to think that the supposedly smart people on this forum would get that.
It might make a nice apartment by Senegalese standards.
Yeah I was on 737-300s in 1994
All true, but you are preaching to the people who are not triggered by the word Boeing in a headline.
Hehehe Great movie. My sister provided the voices to many of the overhead background comments “5-2 they all die! etc”
That said, one might think this is a concerted effort from the Media to put a knife in Boeing the way stories are written now.
Rational people who understand aviation fully understand that every mishap that befalls an aircraft is not a design flaw. The majority (probably, the vast majority) of those mishaps are NOT caused by design flaws introduced by DEI engineers or poor management or construction.
Most aviation mishaps are the result human error or negligence ranging from pilot error, to maintenance error, to carrier policy or administration error.
Boeing has made themselves a rich target, and rightly so, and I think it has become a form of entertainment to ridicule and denigrate them. But it doesn't make the underlying reality any different.
“Boeing!! I KNEW it! That company is not to be trusted.”
Boeing does not fly or maintain aircraft!
“Was it yesterday that a FedEx Boeing’s front landing gear didn’t deploy?
How can a company get this bad this fast?”
The plane is ten years old. Boeing does not do maintenance.
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