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ANACIM) announced Sunday night that Senegalair air aircraft registered 6 VAIM from Ouagadougou and which is currently at sea researched flight had crossed the BICI (CEL 071) Boeing 737 800 to Cotonou at 18h 12 min GMT about 300 NM (555KM) in Dakar.
'' According to preliminary information, there would have been a collision between the two aircraft, that the results of the technical investigation will confirm or deny, '' says' the ANACIM in a statement received in APS.
The same source added that the CEIBA flight that took off from Dakar at 17h 29 min GMT has finally heading to Malabo where he landed at 21h 40 min.
An air collision is a collision between two aircraft in flight. The main factors explaining these collisions are human (miscommunication, misunderstanding between the pilot and air traffic controller or between pilots, navigational error, decreased alertness, changing flight plans) and material.
The plane of the Equatorial Guinean company CEIBA Intercontinental who had left Dakar on Saturday afternoon to rally Cotonou, was forced, for unknown reasons the hundred passengers who were on board, landing in Malabo where another device was responsible for conveying them to the capital of Benin, told APS Sunday from Cotonou, one of the passengers.
The arrival in Cotonou was planned at 21:30 but with this setback it took place around 3am, the source said, noting that the plane was '' not far from Cotonou '' when '' the commander board announced that for technical and security reasons, he was compelled to focus on
Malabo. ''
'' The crew did not want too much to dwell on the reasons for this were to land or ignored stopover travelers essentially '', added the front passenger to assert that '' the rest of the way to Malabo lasting about an hour after the announcement of the captain, would happen in a heavy silence. ''
By way of explanation, the passenger acknowledges that, like '' a lot '' of his companions' have felt, more than half an hour after taking off from Dakar, a rather abrupt and rapid noise on aircraft '', revealed that a passenger in business class, on the basis of information obtained from the crew, told him that their device '' had come into contact with another outdoor air ... ' '.
Research undertaken since Saturday to find the plane of Air Senegal Company (private) that disappeared from radar screens the same day at 7:08 p.m., resumed Sunday at 6 am with the opening match of two aircraft and a ship of the Navy announced to the Senegalese Press Agency the communications department of the Ministry of Air Transport.
The Navy ship is sufficiently equipped to stay ten days at sea, said the source, adding that at the time of his disappearance Senegal Air aircraft was 111 km west of Dakar, either Wed.
In addition to the logistical deployment, a crisis unit was installed at Dakar airport.
The unit left Ouagadougou had its seven passengers on board; three members of the crew (an Algerian and two Congolese), a Senegalese doctor and two nurses and a fellow French nationality patient.
Prime Minister Abdullah Mahammad Boune Dionne, the Minister of Interior, Daouda Diallo Andoulaye and his colleague of the Armed Forces, Augustin Tine, meadows follow the developments regarding this case.