The plane Daallo company was left with a hole in the fuselage after the explosion
An explosion and fire opened a hole in the fuselage of a commercial airliner, forcing the aircraft to make an emergency landing at the international airport of Mogadishu, Somalia, Tuesday. The more than 70 passengers and the flight crew evacuated the aircraft company Daalla after landing, according to a civil aviation official of Somalia, Ali Mohamoud. A person who was closest to the hole is swallowed up by the force of air expelled in depressurization and later his body was found with signs of burns. Two other people were slightly injured.
"There are only two things that could have made a hole in the plane that looks like one of the pictures that are circulating on the internet: a bomb or a disruption caused by a failure on the outside of the plane," he told BBC John Goglia, a security expert air. The cause of the explosion has not yet been disclosed.
The plane, operated by Daallo Airlines and had Djibouti as a destination, was forced to land minutes after takeoff at the airport of Mogadishu, Mohamoud said. "I think it was a bomb," said the pilot Vladimir Vodopivec a local newspaper. "Luckily, the flight controls were not damaged and I could land at the airport. This has never happened in my career. We lost cabin pressure. Thank God it ended well."
The Deputy Ambassador of Somalia to the United Nations (UN), Awale Kullane, said he heard a loud noise and can not see nothing but smoke for a few minutes in your Facebook account. "When visibility returned, we realized that 'a piece' of the plane was missing," he said. Kullane, who was going to Djibouti to attend a conference of diplomats, also posted a video showing some passengers put oxygen masks on the plane.
