Passengers on a Lyon-Dakar flight, operated by Air Senegal, experienced a succession of bad adventures this Sunday.
They were to land in Senegal on Sunday followingnoon, the passengers of a Lyon-Dakar flight finally returned to their starting point following a succession of bad adventures.
The interrupted flight
Air Senegal, which operates flight HC427, was forced to land the plane at Marseille airport “due to an operational constraint”, she explains on son site Internet.
The passengers were then taken care of in order to be brought back to Lyon “in accordance with the policy of taking charge of operating irregularities”, says the company.
A bus was set up to pick up the passengers in order to bring them back to their starting point. Except that around 3 p.m., it caught fire on the A7 motorway near Valence, reports The Dauphine.
A tire would have burst and generated a start of fire which caused significant smoke, according to the regional daily. The 41 passengers, who were not injured, were taken care of in another vehicle to finally reach Lyon.
Air Senegal did not comment on this misadventure during the transfer by coach. It only indicates that it provides for “a rerouting to Dakar, in accordance with the legislation in force, within 24 hours”.
