Om bord på dette fly, som de to regeringer havde chartret, var 30 ivorianere og 23 senegalesere, som ikke havde fået indrejsetilladelse til Frankrig, eller hvis ansøgning om politisk asyl i Frankrig var blevet afvist, og som opholdt sig i en ventezone i Roissy, og en senegaleser, der var kommet ad landevejen fra Tyskland, hvorfra han var blevet udvist.
On board the aircraft hired by the two governments were 30 Ivorians and 23 Senegalese, who had not been admitted to France or whose request for asylum in France had been rejected, and who had been detained in the transit area at Roissy airport, and a Senegalese who had come from Germany by road, having been expelled from that country.