Daallo Airlines Flight 159

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Daallo Airlines Flight 159
Airbus A321-100 Hermes Airlines (HRM) "Air Méditerranée" SX-BHS - MSN 642 (10297421475) .jpg

The Airbus A321-111 (SX-BHS) affected by the incident , 2013
Accident summary
Accident type Bomb attack
place Near Mogadishu Airport , SomaliaSomaliaSomalia 
date February 2, 2016
Fatalities 1
Survivors 80
Injured 2
Aircraft
Aircraft type Airbus A321-111
operator Daallo Airlines
Mark SX bras
Departure airport Mogadishu Airport , SomaliaSomaliaSomalia 
Destination airport Djibouti airport , DjiboutiDjiboutiDjibouti 
Passengers 74
crew 7th
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Daallo Airlines flight 159 ( flight number : D3159 or DAO159) was a scheduled flight of the Djiboutian airline Daallo Airlines from Mogadishu to Djibouti , on which an explosion occurred shortly after take-off on February 2, 2016, which pierced the fuselage of the Airbus crack. The pilots, one of them Vlatko Vodopivec, turned around and landed the aircraft again in Mogadishu after around 30 minutes without further incidents.

plane

The aircraft involved in the accident was an Airbus A321-111 with the registration number SX-BHS, which made its maiden flight on January 6, 1997, was then delivered to the leasing group ILFC and rented to Swissair . It has been leased to Daallo Airlines by Hermes Airlines since 2014 . The A321 is equipped with two CFM56 engines.

procedure

The machine took off in Mogadishu with 74 passengers and seven crew members on board and began climbing. About five minutes after take-off, a bomb explosion occurred in the cabin, which tore a hole about one by two meters in the right side of the Airbus above the wing root and started a fire. It also caused severe damage to the cabin. At the time of the explosion, the Airbus A321 was at an altitude of 3350 meters MSL . The pilots turned back and made an emergency landing at Mogadishu Airport 30 minutes later . Two passengers were slightly injured in the explosion.

The assassin died and was sucked out of the cabin through the hole. Residents of Dhiiqaaley village in Bal'ad said they saw a burning body fall from the sky. His body was found about 30 km north of Mogadishu.

Investigations

According to various sources, the Somali authorities initially assumed either a suicide attack or an oxygen cylinder was the cause of the explosion.

According to reports on February 4, the offender was said to have bypassed strict security checks as a wheelchair user. The body thrown out is said to be 55-year-old Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh from Somaliland . A picture taken by the surveillance cameras at Mogadishus airport shows how two people hand over a notebook to the alleged assassin . One person was wearing a security jacket. Two days later, it was confirmed that the person in the wheelchair was the assassin who died in the explosion. 20 people were arrested in connection with the attack. Security forces suspect the al-Shabaab militia to be the mastermind behind the explosion. On February 13, 2016, al-Shabaab claimed responsibility for the bombing in an email . In the email, al-Shabaab stated that the attack was in retaliation for the "crimes of Western crusaders against Muslims in Somalia". The militia said that they wanted to hit Turkish Airlines with the attack , as NATO supported the measures in Somalia. 70 of the passengers on the flight came from a flight on this line that had been canceled a few hours earlier due to bad weather.

consequences

After the incident, Mogadishu Airport came under fire for inadequate security standards. According to the pilot Vlatko Vodopivec, there were always 20 to 30 people on the ground around the aircraft, without it being clear whether the people were authorized ground personnel. Daallo Airlines no longer flies to Mogadishu until further notice. The aircraft was transferred to Amman in August 2016 and has been stored there ever since.

See also

Individual evidence

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  2. ↑ a b c d Accident: Daallo A321 near Mogadishu on Feb 2nd 2016, explosion rips fuselage open. In: avherald.com. The Aviation Herald , accessed July 30, 2019 .
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  5. ↑ Airfleets.net. In: airfleets.net. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
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  7. ↑ Associated Press: Somalia plane blast: airport worker 'handed device to bombing suspect' . In: The Guardian . February 8, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com ).
  8. ^ Press Release for Flight D3 159. In: daallo.com. Retrieved July 30, 2019 .
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  12. ↑ Jason Burke: Explosion on flight from Somalia was caused by bomb, sources say . In: The Guardian . February 3, 2016, ISSN  0261-3077 ( theguardian.com ).
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  14. ↑ a b Allegations: Chaotic conditions at Mogadishu Airport. In: aerotelegraph.com. 2016, accessed on July 30, 2019 (Swiss Standard German).
  15. ↑ a b c Al-Shabab 'carried out' Somalia plane attack. BBC News, February 13, 2016, accessed February 13, 2016 .
  16. ↑ Al-Shabaab claims responsibility for bombing that left hole in Airbus A321. The Guardian, February 13, 2016, accessed on February 14, 2016 (English): “Harakat al-Shabaab al Mujahideen carried out the bombing as a retribution for the crimes committed by the coalition of western crusaders and their intelligence agencies against the Muslims of Somalia,"
  17. ↑ Harro Ranter: Air accident 02 FEB 2016 of an Airbus A321-111 SX-BHS - Mogadishu International Airport (MGQ). Retrieved January 29, 2019 .