Sunday 6 September 2015

BREAKING NEWS: Medical plane carrying 7 people 'crashes' off Senegal

Senegal's civil aviation authority lost contact with the plane as it was flying over the Atlantic, 111 kilometres west of the capital Dakar. (AFP)

A medical evacuation plane carrying seven people, including a French patient, crashed off the coast of Senegal, aviation sources said Sunday.

Contact with the twin-engine aircraft flying from Burkina Faso belonging to the private Senegalair company was lost shortly after 7 pm (1900 GMT) on Saturday, as it was flying over the Atlantic, 111 kilometres west of the capital Dakar, Senegal’s civil aviation authority said in a statement.

The country’s air force was searching the area for the plane, it said.

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