Passengers seem fairly nonchalant. I guess a bomb blowing a hole in your plane is a common occurrence in Somalia.
A Daallo Airlines flight made a reported emergency landing in Mogadishu, Somalia today after an onboard explosion just minutes after take-off.
The Airbus flight D3159 was traveling from Somalia to Djibouti when passengers heard a loud bang before seeing flames, according to Airlive.net.
At least two people were reported injured by the explosion which blew a large hole through the side of the aircraft. Details surrounding the incident vary, with VOA reporting the number of people injured as three and Vice News suggesting the “fire or explosion was contained on the airport’s tarmac”.
No explanation has been given for the cause of the explosion, but police are reportedly treating it as “suspicious”.
Somali-owned Daallo Airlines has its headquarters in Dubai, and appears on the EU’s most recent “list of air carriers which are banned from operating within the Union”.
Malaysian Airlines MH17 plane was travelling almost the same route as Russia’s President Vladimir Putin’s jet shortly before the crash that killed 295, Interfax news agency reports citing sources.
“I can say that Putin’s plane and the Malaysian Boeing intersected at the same point and the same echelon. That was close to Warsaw on 330-m echelon at the height of 10,100 meters. The presidential jet was there at 16:21 Moscow time and the Malaysian aircraft – 15:44 Moscow time,” a source told the news agency on condition of anonymity.
“The contours of the aircrafts are similar, linear dimensions are also very similar, as for the coloring, at a quite remote distance they are almost identical”, the source added.
AFP Photo / liu Jin / Tomas Noack
President Putin was on his way from Brazil, where he attended the BRICS summit, to Moscow.
Flight MH17 crashed in Ukraine on a flight from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpar, and was carrying 295 people.
The passenger Boeing-777 was expected to enter Russian airspace at 5:20pm local time, but never did, a Russian aviation industry source was cited by Reuters.
“The plane crashed 60km away from the border, the plane had an emergency beacon,” ITAR-TASS cited its source.
It looks like worthless government drones aren’t exclusive to the U.S. Postal Service. While the TSA was patting down a 95 year old grandmother in her wheelchair, they allowed a little 9 year old potential terrorist without a ticket to board a flight to Vegas. It seems what happened in Vegas didn’t stay in Vegas. The TSA – keeping us safe from phantom terrorists.
9-year-old boy boards plane at Minneapolis-St. Paul International airport without ticket
Associated Press
MINNEAPOLIS – A 9-year-old runaway went through security, boarded a plane at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport without a ticket and flew to Las Vegas, an airport spokesman said Sunday.
Security officials screened the Minneapolis boy at the airport shortly after 10:30 a.m. Thursday after he arrived via light rail, Metropolitan Airports Commission spokesman Patrick Hogan said. The boy then boarded a Delta flight that left for Las Vegas at 11:15 a.m.
The flight was not full, Hogan said, and the flight crew became suspicious midflight because the boy was not on their list of unattended minors. The crew contacted Las Vegas police, who met them upon landing and transferred the boy to child protection services, Hogan said.
“It’s hard to piece anything together from his stories why he got on the flight and went to Las Vegas,” Hogan said.
Minneapolis police Sgt. Bill Palmer said officers talked to the family after Las Vegas police contacted them. A family member told police the boy ran away and was last seen earlier Thursday.
The boy had been at the airport on Wednesday as well, Hogan said. Video shows him grabbing a bag from the carousel and ordering lunch at a restaurant outside of the security checkpoints.
He ate and then told the server he had to use the bathroom. He left the bag and never returned to pay, Hogan said. Airport officials returned the bag to its owner.
Delta and the Transportation Security Administration said in separate statements that they were investigating.
Hennepin County Child Protection Services also was looking into it, Palmer said. County spokeswoman Carolyn Marinan said Sunday she couldn’t confirm or deny the agency’s involvement because the case involves a juvenile and data privacy issues.
The boy was expected to return to the Twin Cities, but Hogan didn’t know Sunday if that had happened yet.
