A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 aircraft bound for New York made an emergency stop due to a technical incident at the Blaise Diagne International Airport in Senegal on Saturday, the West African nation's transport ministry said.

A Boeing 767 chartered by Delta was forced to make an emergency stop on Saturday as it was taking off from Dakar for New York, Senegal’s air transport ministry announced. “The plane, in its take-off phase,

A Delta Airlines Boeing 767 en route to New York made an emergency stop at Senegal's Blaise Diagne Airport due to a technical incident. All 216 passengers were unharmed. The event followed a similar Boeing safety review announcement by the U.

"The plane, in its take-off phase, carried out an acceleration manouevre followed by an emergency stop because of a technical incident," said the Senegal's air transport ministry statement.