Dakar: A medical evacuation plane with seven people on board, including a French patient, disappeared off the coast of Senegal on Saturday night during a flight from Burkina Faso to Dakar, the Senegalese civil aviation authority said on Sunday.
The private Senegalair plane from Ouagadougou disappeared from radar screens at 7:08 p.m. (1908 GMT), 118 km (74 miles) west of Dakar, the Senegalese capital, it said in a statement.