Dakar - A small medical evacuation plane carrying seven people, which crashed off Senegal, collided with a Boeing 737 over the Atlantic Ocean, the national civil aviation agency said on Monday.
The reasons for the crash of the Air Senegal aircraft, which was coming from Burkina Faso and went down about 100 kilometres off Senegal’s coast on Saturday, had been unknown.
The medical evacuation plane was carrying a Senegalese doctor and two nurses, two Congolese and one Algerian national, as well as a French patient.
Senegal dispatched a search and rescue team to the area.
Authorities on Monday said they assume the small rescue plane hit a Boeing 737 belonging to Equatorial Guinea’s Ceiba airline, which had departed Dakar International Airport on Saturday afternoon and was bound for Benin.
The Boeing remained operational and could be rerouted to Equatorial Guinea, according to the civil aviation agency.
On Sunday, the aviation agency had mistakenly reported that three people from Burkina Faso had been on the flight.
DPA