Hiiraan Online
Wednesday, February 3, 2016
MOGADISHU (HOL) – A blast heard inside a passenger plane that made an emergency landing at Mogadishu airport Tuesday, triggering security concerns as investigations into the cause of the explosion were ongoing.
Abdiwahab Sheikh Omar, the director of Somalia’s civil aviation authority told Voice of America’s Somali Service that the agency was yet to establish the exact cause of the explosion which occurred
inside the aircraft.
“It could have been a decompression or something else, that’s what we are going to find out.” He said.
Mr. Abdiwahab said that out of the 74 passengers who were onboard the plane one person is missing who he said might have fallen from the plane before it made an emergency landing in Mogadishu.
Officials in Bala’d town said that residents found the dead body of a man who might have fallen from the plane Daallo Airlines which was heading to Djibouti before it turned back to Mogadishu.
Somali aviation officials have earlier told HOL that the plane was flying at 6000ft before the pilots realized the problem and turned back to Mogadishu airport to make an emergency landing.