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Boeing Skids off Rainy Guinea Tarmac

What: Mauritania Airways Boeing 737-700 en route from Nouakchott to Dakar Senegal to Conakry
Where: Conakry
When: Jul 28th 2010, 1:30 am
Who: 91 passengers and 6 crew, ten injuries.
Why: While landing in Conakry Guinea in heavy rain, the pilot landed halfway down the runway, resulting in an overran; they came to a dead stop off the tarmac in scrub land.

Passengers evacuated via emergency services. Reports vary, but between 2 and 12 had minor injuries.

Mauritania Airways is 51% owned by Tunisair; 49% by investors and the Mauritanian government.

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