Air France Flight AF711 declares emergency over Morocco, diverts to Paris Orly from Dakar

HEADLINE: Air France Boeing 777 AF711 declares emergency over Morocco, diverts toward Paris from Dakar

HEADLINE: Air France AF711 declares emergency over Morocco en route from Dakar to Paris

Air France flight AF711 (callsign AFR711), a Boeing 777-300ER registered F-GZNG, departed Blaise Diagne International Airport (GOBD) near Dakar, Senegal, at 7:33 a.m. local time (07:33 UTC) on August 19, 2026, bound for Paris. According to airlive.net, the crew declared an emergency while the aircraft was over Morocco and the flight turned around in that area.

ADS-B data reviewed by SkyMeter shows the aircraft climbed out of Dakar on a heading of roughly 359 degrees, turning northeast to about 29 degrees as it ascended through the flight levels, reaching a cruise altitude of 38,105 feet with a peak ground speed of 558 knots. The track shows the aircraft maintaining cruise through the late morning before beginning its initial descent around 1:52 p.m. local time, at which point the heading had shifted to approximately 24 degrees. A course reversal is evident in the data, with the aircraft ultimately tracking northwest toward the Paris area rather than continuing on its original routing.

The descent was brisk, with the steepest recorded rate reaching 3,060 feet per minute as the aircraft passed through 20,000 feet. By the final minutes of the recorded track, the aircraft had turned to a heading of roughly 308 degrees northwest near Charles de Gaulle International Airport (LFPG), slowing through 211 knots at 4,176 feet, consistent with an approach into the Paris region. The track ends at 2:21 p.m. local time with a landing event detected. The full flight can be replayed on SkyMeter.