Problem on the plane of the Gambia national team! Players fainted due to lack of oxygen

Gambia football players won’t forget this flight. On their way to Ivory Coast, where AFCON is being held this year, they had a problem with the amount of oxygen in the plane. 

Gambia’s football players have an African Cup of Nations to look forward to this year in Ivory Coast. However, they escaped the gravedigger’s shovel on their way to the tournament. As DailyMail reports, the players were half an hour away from death.

This is because the oxygen supply failed on the plane, causing many of the footballers to faint shortly after boarding. So after nine minutes of flight, the pilot was forced to return to Banjul, where the footballers were flying from.

The rest of the crew suffered from severe headaches or dizziness. “We could all be dead. We all fell asleep quickly. So was I. I had brief dreams about how my life ended,” Gambia coach Tom Saintfiet said in an interview with Belgian newspaper Niewsblad.

“As soon as we got on the small plane, we felt a huge heat that made us sweat. The crew assured us that as soon as we were in the sky, the air conditioning would kick in. The inhuman heat mixed with the occurring lack of oxygen left many people with severe headaches and extreme dizziness.

In addition, people began to fall into a deep sleep a few minutes after boarding/takeoff. While in the air, the situation worsened, leaving the pilot with no choice but to initiate an emergency landing back at Banjul airport nine minutes after take-off.

Which was successfully done. Had it not been for that, the consequences could have been much worse! Knowing what could have happened if we had been exposed to the situation longer – in a plane running out of oxygen...” said footballer Saidy Janko.

Source: DailyMail