A Boeing plane carrying 85 people has skidded off a runway in Senegal, injuring at least 10 people.
Footage shows people jumping down the emergency escape ramps after a Boeing flight skidded off the runway in Senegal | Video credit - Siriman Sissoko“Our plane just caught fire,” wrote Malian musician Cheick Siriman Sissoko in a post on Facebook that showed passengers jumping down the emergency slides at night as flames engulfed one side of the aircraft.
The incident has raised scrutiny of Boeing to the highest level since two crashes of Boeing 737 Max jets in 2018 and 2019 that killed 346 people. In April, a Boeing whistleblower, Sam Salehpour, testified at a congressional hearing that the company had taken manufacturing shortcuts to turn out 787s as quickly as possible that could lead to jetliners breaking apart..
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