A Daallo Airlines flight from Somalia to Djibouti had to make an emergency landing Tuesday after an explosion ripped a hole in the side of the plane.
The explosion took place shortly after takeoff, and the plane landed safely at Aden Adde Airport in Mogadishu. There were 74 people on board, and two passengers were injured, USA Today reports. Locals told the Nano News they saw a badly burned body fall from the plane, but the Dubai-based airline has not commented on the report. The pilot told Belgrade newspaper Blic he thinks a bomb went off, while Somalia's deputy ambassador to the UN, Awale Kullane, wrote on Facebook that he "heard a loud noise and couldn't see anything but smoke for a few seconds." Eventually, he was able to see that "quite a chunk" of the plane was missing.
John Goglia, a former member of the National Transportation Safety Board, told USA Today that after looking at photos of the hole he thinks just two things could have caused it: a bomb or a pressurized blowout caused by a flaw in the plane's skin. There also appears to be soot, he said, which a bomb would create.
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