Aircraft missing in Burkino Faso. Seven lives feared lost.

Un avion d’évacuation médicale parti de Ouagadougou disparaît au large du Sénégal.

An air ambulance departed Ouagadougou (Burkino Faso) has gone missing in a remote part of Senegal.

par Rédaction de France Info dimanche 6 septembre 2015 14:39

Parti de Ouagadougou à 16h35, l’avion devait arriver à Dakar à 18h20, indiquent dimanche des sources aéroportuaires © Ide

Un avion sanitaire effectuant la liaison entre le Burkina Faso et le Sénégal est porté disparu depuis samedi soir. Sept passagers, parmi lesquels une patiente française, se trouvaient à bord.

A turbo-prop air ambulance operating between Burkina Faso and Senegal has been reported missing since Saturday evening. Seven passengers, among them a French patient, are on board.

L’appareil, un bimoteur HS 125 de la compagnie privée Senegalair affrété par SOS Médecin Sénégal, avait quitté Ouagadougou à 16h30.
The twin engine Hants & Sussex 125 of the private company Senegalair, operating as an SOS Senegal Medical, left Ouagadougou at 16h30 on Saturday.
Les contrôleurs aériens ont perdu sa trace peu après 19h alors qu’il se trouvait à un peu plus de 110 km à l’ouest de Dakar, la capitale sénégalaise, précise l’Agence nationale de l’aviation civile et de la météorologie (Anacim) du Sénégal dans un communiqué. Il y avait sept personnes à bord de l’appareil. Trois membres d’équipage – deux Algériens et un Congolais, un médecin et deux infirmiers sénégalais, et une patiente française. L’armée a entamé des recherches pour retrouver l’appareil qui aurait pu s’abîmer au large de Dakar.

ATC lost contact with the aircraft a little after 19h00 when it was a little more than 110kms west of Dakar, the Senegal capital, according to the National Civil Aviation Weather Agency said in a communiqué. There were seven people on board the aircraft. Three crew members – two Algerians and a Congolese, a doctor and two nurses from Senegal, and a French patient. The army are starting the search for the aircraft which could be damaged remotely from Dakar. (A spokes person has said there is no hope to find any survivors) 

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Worked in the technical / engineering area as a Science Laboratory Technician and as an Aeronautics Engineer. The artistic side involves writing under the nom de plume of Billy Olsenn, his recently written play 'A Case of Wine' was staged by the players group Straight Make-Up at the 2012 Birr one act drama festival. It's next staging was in the one act circuit is in Cavan, at Maudebawn on Sat 10 Nov 2012. Then it was performed in the Bray, Co.Wicklow at the very popular one act festival in January 2013. Next play is FEAR. A dark tale about revenge on the cruel death of two pensioners by young thugs. Neighbours hatch a devious and dangerous plan to exact old-style revenge. Bill is a member of the Drama League of Ireland and his plays have been critically vetted and certified as original pieces of work by the DLI. Another literary project is that of commemoration of an aircraft crash on Djouce mountain in Wicklow in 1946. Bill wrote articles for the 50th, 60th and most recently the 70th anniversary, (12 Aug 2016) all were published in the Wicklow Times and ensured the survivors of the crash, all French Girl Guides, were not forgotten. Articles reproduced on this website. But mostly this site gives a more general European and specific French slant on popular and not so popular articles of French news, translated to English by the author. Each article is translated on a paragraph by paragraph basis so easy to read in either language and even possible to improve either language by comparison of the short English and French paragraphs. Amusez vous bien. The author is currently writing an easy to read technical aviation book centered around the Fokker 50. Another interest is that dealt with in another of Bill's websites www.realnamara.net, a Statue of the mother of God, Mary. It was erected in 1972 in Dublin, at the end of the Bull Wall near Clontarf, and my grandfather William Nelson, was the main instigator of that project. I give talks on the history of the statue and my grandfather's adventurous and dangerous life at sea. Technical assistance with each website is by J O'N.
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