737 Catches Fire, Skids Off Runway In Latest Boeing Incident [Video]

Another day, another troubling Boeing accident. A Boeing 737-300 operated by the Senegal-based airline Transair skidded off the runway while on fire at Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar, Senegal on Thursday.

Reports vary, but the Boeing 737 was carrying between 78 and 85 people when it “overran the runway” at approximately 1:14 a.m., Senegal’s Ministry of Infrastructure, Land and Air Transport said in an statement.

Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko wrote on Facebook, “Our plane just caught fire” alongside a video that shows flames coming from the engine on the left side of the plane.

Reports claim that either 10 or 11 people were injured in the plane crash. Transport Minister El Malick Ndiaye said 10 people were injured, while a local media report stated that the airport informed that that 11 people were injured including the pilot and four were injured seriously.

Ndiaye stated the Transair flight suffered an “acceleration stop” and that the injured were …