Details remain scant as to the whereabouts of a Hawker 700 that disappeared at about 2 p.m. on September 6 approximately 69 miles west of Dakar, Senegal. Reports indicate the business jet was operating as a medical transport and carried seven people—including a crew of two, a doctor, two nurses and a patient—when it departed Ouagadougou Airport in Burkina Faso in west central Africa.
Unconfirmed reports from the Senegalese civil aviation agency claim the Hawker might have collided in midair with a Boeing 737 operated by Ceiba International Airlines a short while before the business jet disappeared from radar at approximately 2:08 p.m. local time. ATC efforts to reestablish contact with the Hawker crew were unsuccessful. Other as yet unconfirmed reports claim the Hawker continued on a westerly heading after the time it crossed paths with the Boeing, overflew Dakar and crashed into the ocean when it ran out of fuel.
Local search-and-rescue efforts have so far been unable to locate any trace of the Hawker.