Aircraft operated by Tarom until recently involved in an accident resulting in 11 injuries

A Boeing 737 aircraft, until recently operated by Tarom and sold to another company, was involved in an accident caused by technical problems in which 11 people were injured.

The Boeing 737-300 plane that violently overshot the runway on takeoff from Blaise Diagne International Airport in Dakar, Senegal, the accident resulted in 11 injuries, 4 of them in serious condition, belonged to the Tarom airline company until 2022, according to website data of Airfleets.net, reports hotnews.ro.

The aircraft was registered with the number YR-BGD, part of the Tarom fleet between 1994 and 2022. Moreover, in the photos taken on Wednesday night and Thursday morning, the Tarom logo can still be seen on the rudder of the aircraft that overshot the runway at Dakar, even though the new the owner of the aircraft painted the flag of Senegal next to the registration number.

The plane is a 737-300 model and was part of the Tarom fleet until the end of 2022. The last flight for Tarom was in August 2022, on the Paris-Bucharest route.

Then, the Romanian airline sold the plane plus three others, all Boeing, to a company from Saudi Arabia. TAROM would have collected five million for the whole lot. That’s how the plane ended up in the possession of the Transavia company from Senegal. In fact, part of the Tarom logo could still be seen on the tail, which had not been completely sealed.