Many feared dead as 2 planes collide over Atlantic

An Unknown number of people may have lost their lives in a mid-air collision involving two planes in Senegal.

The Senegalese National Civil Aviation Agency had said on Sunday that a medical evacuation plane carrying seven people had varnished.

But on Monday, the agency cleared the air with a new report that the small medical evacuation plane crashed off Senegal and that it collided with a Boeing 737 over the Atlantic Ocean.

It, however, did not specify whether those on board the medical plane, nor the other aircraft, had died or are still alive thereby creating fear that some people must have died.

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The agency had said earlier that 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.

It added that the plane was carrying a Senegalese doctor and two nurses, two Congolese and one Algerian national, as well as a French patient.

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