Aircraft carrying seven disappears in Senegal

A medical evacuation plane disappeared west of Senegal during a flight from Burkina Faso to Dakar, Senegalese civil aviation authority said in a statement on Sunday.
The aircraft carrying seven people, including a French patient went down off the coast of Senegal at 7:08 p.m. (1908 GMT) on Saturday, said the statement.
Senegal’s air force was conducting a search of the wreckage of the plane.
According to officials, the plan was carrying a Senegalese doctor, two nurses,three crew members, two Algerians and one Congolese, apart from the patient.
The plane, which had been scheduled to arrive in Dakar at 18:20, belonged to the private Senegalair company.
A technical investigation will be launched for further details, said the Senegalese civil aviation authority.