Medevac plane with seven on board disappears off Senegal

Magueye Maram, an official with the Senegalese Aviation Authority, said that the plane lost contact late Saturday.

A medical evacuation plane with seven people on board has reportedly crashed west of Senegal during a flight from Burkina Faso to Dakar.

The plane crossed the path of a Boeing 737-800 operated by Ceiba Intercontinental Airlines, an airline based in Equatorial Guinea, at 1812 GMT around 555 kilometres from Dakar, Anacim said in a later communique.

“We guess the past moment when communicate with with detection was also misplaced appeared to be 60 sailing airline miles (111 kilometer) off the beach of Dakar”, Ndao said, including which typically 3 aircraft as well as a nautical transport overhead the request.

Senegal’s Futurs Medias information group reported that the plane was suspected of getting run out of gasoline.

Armed forces from Senegal have searched for the plane.

Senegalese authorities stated the crews of a ship and two planes have been scouring an space off the Atlantic coast of Senegal for indicators of the wreckage.

The aircraft, a twin-engine HS 125 belonging to the private company Senegalair, had on board, besides the patient, three crew members – two Algerians and a Congolese – and a doctor and two Senegalese nurses, announced in a statement the National Agency of Civil Aviation and Meteorology (Anacim) of Senegal.

Contacted by AFP, France’s foreign ministry declined to reveal the identity of the French patient who was being airlifted, nor the reason for the person’s presence in Ouagadougou.