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After two weeks of suspension, one of Air Senegal's two ATRs resumed Friday service to Ziguinchor, Casamance. As for the second aircraft, it will soon be sent to the manufacturer's maintenance base in Toulouse for a general repair.
While one of the two brand new ATRs of Air Senegal, the new Senegalese company, was able to take off again on July 20 to resume service to the Dakar-Ziguinchor route, the second is still waiting for a technical inspection and a passage in the center of Toulouse for a general repair.
The cabin of the aircraft, perforated by containers carried by the wind during the last bad weather on the tarmac of the airport of Dakar Blaise- Diagne (AIBD) has been patched temporarily on the scene. "The holes were plugged to allow the pilots to fly to Toulouse not exceeding an altitude of 3,000 meters, because the plane can not be pressurized," says an aeronautical technician.
Concerns [19659005] As for the landing gear that were not also spared the damage of the heavy rain of June 27, continues the same source, "if we do not have a cylinder to check if the wheels come in and out at takeoff as to the landing, the pilots will be forced to fly the wheels in the air until Toulouse. Under these conditions, they will be forced to make numerous stopovers with a limited speed.
The other aircraft was damaged by a bird strike on July 7, when the aircraft took off. Ziguinchor airport, which did not prevent it from landing safely at Blaise-Diagne airport. Nevertheless, the aircraft was then immobilized for the replacement of the damaged radome by the bird, before being put back into service last week.
This forced immobilization of the two aircraft of the young company – whose commercial flights have was launched on May 14 – had raised serious concerns in a country already scalded by the experiences of Air Senegal International (2001-2009) and Senegal Airlines (2011-2016).
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