A football team of more than 30 people faced "death" because of a plane incident, but was "saved" because of one thing.

Not long after the plane took off, the passengers began to feel tired and sleepy. They fainted without knowing that they were narrowly facing death.

Information related to a rare incident on a plane carrying more than 30 members of the Gambia football team attracted the attention of readers around the world. It is known that the plane of Air Cote d'Ivoire took on the task of taking more than 30 members of the Gambia football team from Banjul to Abidjan (Ivory Coast) to attend the African football championship (AFCON).

Not long after the plane took off, the passengers began to feel tired and sleepy. They fainted without knowing that they were narrowly facing death. The pilot had to make an emergency landing when he realized the plane's oxygen supply was starting to run out. If you don't land, all passengers and crew will fall into eternal sleep.

Former Manchester United player Saidy Janko recorded a video when the plane landed and the players got off the plane one by one after the horrifying incident. He said everyone fell into a state of severe headaches and extreme dizziness. Many of them even fell into a coma and lost consciousness.

Saidy Janko described the incident on Instagram: "What happened to us is unacceptable. After traveling a total of 32 hours from Saudi Arabia (where Gambia is located) to Gambia, having to transit in Turkey and Morocco, today we are scheduled to fly from Gambia to Ivory Coast to attend CAN.

As soon as we boarded the small plane arranged to carry us, we all noticed the terrible heat. Entering the passenger compartment, we were all sweating.

The crew ensured that the air conditioning would start while the plane was in the sky. But nothing happened, many people had severe headaches and extreme dizziness."

Through this, Janko, who spent 2 years with MU, also criticized the country's Football Federation, saying that they did not care about the team because when moving from Gambia to Ivory Coast with a distance of 2,000 km, it took It took them a day and a half to fly, but they were assigned a narrow, old plane with only 4 rows of seats. This is also an old aircraft so the risk of failure is very high.

Just as Janko described, just 9 minutes after taking to the sky, the pilot had to bring the plane back to the ground because the air conditioning system could not work.

Gambia coach Tom Saintfiet was also shocked by this horrifying experience. He said: "We could all have died. I noticed many people quickly fainted. Me too. I remembered what happened in my life, like the feeling of dying.

Some players did not wake up until after landing. We almost got carbon monoxide poisoning. If we fly another half hour, everyone will die."

Coach Saintfiet insisted that the Gambia Football Association arrange a better quality plane before the team could participate in CAN. "We are now in Gambia and don't want to fly on a plane like that anymore. It was the smallest plane they could find for 50 people," he said.

This country's team must be present in Ivory Coast on schedule tomorrow (January 13). If they do not arrive in time before the match against Senegal on January 15, they are at risk of being eliminated from the tournament.

The Gambia Football Federation immediately took action. Late on the night of January 11, they rented a more spacious plane, with a capacity of 250 people, to transport the team. Thus, Gambia players still participate in CAN as scheduled.

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