Don't worry. All the passengers already seated were not harmed in the blast.
Posted on 02/02/2016 4:35:52 PM PST by wtd
A passenger plane bound for Djibouti was forced to make an emergency landing today, minutes after taking off from Mogadishu, due to a hole opening up in the plane after an apparent explosion, according to aviation experts.
On its Facebook page, Daallo Airlines, the national airline of Somalia, said in a statement that an Airbus 321 had "experienced an incident shortly after takeoff" from the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia.
(Excerpt) Read more at abcnews.go.com ...
The hole in the plane's fuselage reached from the ceiling to the floor, according to photos of the damage. The aircraft was carrying 74 passengers and crew, authorities said. A Somali aviation official said that two passengers had been slightly injured in the incident, according to the Associated Press....
"The thing that's most interesting to me is that if you look at the outside of the airplane, some force from within the airplane pushed the sides of the aircraft open. You can see how it's peeled back and you can actually see the streaking from soot down the back side, which would suggest quite definitively that this was a bomb of some kind, probably something about a hand~grenade size that would have made this hole in the side of the airplane," said ABC News aviation consultant ret. Col. Steve Ganyard.
Airport 75
Looks like they served too many beans on the flight.
Note to self - Do Not Fly in the Somalian Airspace
That note is filed next to — Do Not Fly the Malaysian Airlines
Don't worry. All the passengers already seated were not harmed in the blast.
Shoe bomber?
Did someone promise 72 virgins or eternal peace via subterfuge?
It’s a muddy river ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-MkVoQImZc&list=PLAFb89KDm1Ep_UwbgUI7aqIQ0_WVLveA0&index=13
So they almost lost their bootie in Djibouti.
Ya see the report of a male corpse fpound many miles away that may have made a quick exit from the aircraft?
Damn.
Based on that picture, I think it’s safe to eliminate cargo or mechanical fault.
Nothing to do with islamic terrorism, though.
“A Somali aviation official...”
Those words just don’t seem to fit together.
“...the national airline of Somalia...”
That’s a scary thought even without explosions.
That would be the gentleman with the 8th grade education. His colleagues refer to him as ‘The Professor’
This is starting to sound like the owl in Winnie the Pooh...put some glasses on him, and he’s the smart one.
Paint an outline around the hole and label it the new “over wing exit”.
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