Yet one other Boeing aircraft is within the information once more after a number of mishaps in latest months — and this time … it ended with the plane partially on hearth … and folks operating for his or her lives.
Check out this wild footage that reveals a 737 tilted off a runway on the Blaise Diagne airport close to the capital of Dakar Thursday — and extra importantly … reveals flames taking pictures out from the left engine as emergency crews rush over to place the hearth out.
It’s fairly dramatic, as you’ll be able to really see folks fleeing from the scene as they rush to get out of the airplane — and sure, it is an absolute panic … appropriately so, contemplating what is going on on.
Unclear what precisely induced the aircraft to go down — or how excessive up it received within the air earlier than coming again all the way down to Earth — however the plane is reported to have skidded right into a brush space close by … and the aftermath photographs are jarring.
You can see the left engine completely burnt to a crisp … and whereas a superb handful of the 78 passengers aboard had been injured — it would not sound like anybody was hospitalized, and no person died both.
Flights from the airport had been suspended as investigators dig into the trigger. Of course, that is troubling to see in mild of what is been occurring with Boeing-manufactured planes on the whole.
Just yesterday a Boeing plane in Istanbul made a crash touchdown with out its nostril gear … making for a horrific scene. It’s simply one in all a number of incidents courting again to January.