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Mid-Air Explosion Forces Pilot To Perform Emergency Landing

A mystery explosion on a Daallo Airlines flight ripped open a hole in the plane and forced the pilot to take emergency landing measures while thousands of feet in the air. Police are treating the blast as ‘suspicious’ and are questioning the passengers, leading to speculations that a bomb might have been responsible. A body was reportedly seen falling from the sky at the time of the explosion. The Mirror reports: Flight D3159, travelling from Somalia to Djibouti, caught fire just five minutes after taking off from Aden Adde International Airport in Mogadishu this morning. As flames and smoke filled the cabin, the jet turned around and incredibly managed to perform an emergency landing at the Raas Cabaad-based airport. It was met on the tarmac by emergency crews, who were shocked to see a massive hole in the fuselage on the aircraft’s right hand side, just behind its R2 door. Remarkably, airport officials say everyone onboard survived the incident. However, at least three people suffered minor injuries – and some locals even claimed to have seen a severely burned body falling from the sky in the area. Now, it has emerged that passengers are being questioned about the blast – with [...]