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Daallo Airlines flight D3159 suffers decompression after explosion
It appears that the pax who was ejected was the bombmaker
A blast which tore a hole in a Somali passenger jet was a deliberate bomb attacks, officials have revealed.
It was confirmed last night that the bomber was Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh - who they suspect carried a laptop computer onto the aircraft with a bomb concealed.
Officials probing the Daallo Airlines mystery mid-air explosion suspect the man was able to bypass airport security by smuggling the device in his wheelchair before moving to another seat once on board, according to a source speaking to the Wall Street Journal.
"We have confirmed that it was a bomb that exploded," Ali Ahmed Jamac told a news conference on Saturday.
"It was meant to kill all aboard."
Abdisalam Borleh's body was later recovered from the town of Balad - about 20 miles away from Mogadishu.
Somalia-based terror group Al Shabaab, which has close links to Al Qaeda, are thought to be behind the blast that ripped a hole in the side of a passenger jet on Tuesday on an Airbus A321.
Somali officials have confirmed the bomber was Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh - who they suspect carried a laptop computer onto the aircraft with a bomb concealed
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Originally posted by orangehuggy
the most dangerous part of a flight is not the take off or landing anymore, its when a flight crew member goes to the toilet
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