Man on fire sucked out of Somalian plane after explosion
According to eyewitness claims, the burned body of the elderly man had fallen from the sky about 15 miles from the airport at the time of the blast.
The reports revealed that he had been sucked out of the side of a passenger jet at 14,000 feet after a suspected bomb had torn a hole through the side of the fuselage, barely five minutes after the Airbus A321 had taken off from Mogadishu.
The Airline officials reveled that two people had been injured in the blast, bursting the aluminum fuselage about six foot by three foot in size.
Investigators have reportedly found the explosive residue at the site of the suspected bomb although responsibility for the attack is yet to be ascertained.
The aircraft's pilot, Vladimir Vodopivec, 64, from Serbia, speaking on the incident, said:
"I think it was a bomb. Luckily, the flight controls were not damaged so I could return and land at the airport. Something like this has never happened in my flight career. We lost pressure in the cabin. Thank god it ended well."
CNN also reports that preliminary tests have shown explosive residue which indicate that the aircraft may have been the victim of a suspected terrorist attack.
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