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Eugene

(61,874 posts) Sat Feb 6, 2016, 07:41 PM Feb 2016

Somali plane 'was holed by bomb' after Mogadishu take-off

Source: BBC

Somali plane 'was holed by bomb' after Mogadishu take-off

6 February 2016 Africa

A blast that punched a large hole in the fuselage of a passenger plane at Somalia's Mogadishu airport on Tuesday was caused by a bomb, officials say.

"It was a bomb that exploded in the Daallo Airlines flight. It was meant to kill all aboard," Transport Minister Ali Ahmed Jamac said.

One passenger was sucked out of the plane and died, and two other passengers were injured.

The Djibouti-bound Airbus 321 was forced to make an emergency landing.

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Anyone who looked at the way the metal was curved outward expected this Warpy Feb 2016 #1

Warpy

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1. Anyone who looked at the way the metal was curved outward expected this

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Sat Feb 6, 2016, 08:29 PM

Feb 2016

Only a massive failure in the fuselage walls would have done anything like it and only at altitude and even then, the size of the hole would likely have been bigger, the way it was on a Hawaiian plane many years ago.

All we can hope is that the guy who got sucked out of the plane was the bomber, the most likely scenario.

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