--- description: An explosion blew a hole in a plane, injuring at least two people before the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Somalia. title: Somalia: Explosion on Commercial Plane Injures 2 image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef96b7c02d6c677e/69887be0cd1bba0e016ff3c3/daallo-airlines-somalia.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [World](/section/world/) ## World Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Somalia](/tag/somalia/) ## Somalia Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Explosion on Airliner Over Somalia Injures 2  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2016 12:12 AM CUT  The view of a Daallo Airlines Airbus airliner after the explosion causing its emergency landing at the International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 2, 2016. The view of a Daallo Airlines Airbus airliner after the explosion causing its emergency landing at the International Airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, on Feb. 2, 2016.Anadolu Agency/Getty Images  by [Melissa Chan](/author/melissa-chan/)  ## Melissa Chan Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Feb 3, 2016 12:12 AM CUT An explosion [blew a hole in a commercial plane](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1e73cacd0df94415ba5e620d1b4a9e5d/fire-forces-plane-make-emergency-landing-somalia "undefined"), injuring at least two people before the pilot was forced to make an emergency landing in Somalia late Tuesday. The [Daallo Airlines](http://www.daallo.com/ "undefined")\-operated aircraft was headed to Djibouti in the Horn of Africa and had taken off from Mogadishu’s international airport minutes before the blast, the Associated Press reports. “I think it was a bomb,” said 64-year-old Serbian pilot Vladimir Vodopivec, according to the AP. “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.” Two people suffered minor injuries, and 74 passengers and crew members were evacuated after the plane made a safe landing, the AP reports. It’s not clear if all the passengers were accounted for. The cause of the explosion is “still unclear,” Daallo Airlines CEO Mohammed Ibrahim Yassin told [Fortune](http://www.forbes.com/sites/martinrivers/2016/02/02/cause-of-daallo-airlines-a321-explosion-unclear-ceo/#59641b6e63e1 "undefined"). “Fifteen minutes the aircraft was in the air. There was a bang, a sort of an explosion, and then it returned safely,” Yassin said. “We don’t know what caused it … Anything is possible. By tomorrow the picture will be clearer.” \[[_AP_](http://bigstory.ap.org/article/1e73cacd0df94415ba5e620d1b4a9e5d/fire-forces-plane-make-emergency-landing-somalia "undefined")\] ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4205374/plane-explosion-somalia/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4205374/plane-explosion-somalia/"},"headline":"Explosion on Airliner Over Somalia Injures 2","datePublished":"2016-02-03T00:12:08.000Z","dateModified":"2026-03-31T09:10:54.421Z","description":"The cause of the blast is unclear","url":"https://time.com/4205374/plane-explosion-somalia/","keywords":["Somalia"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef96b7c02d6c677e/69887be0cd1bba0e016ff3c3/daallo-airlines-somalia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Chan","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-chan/"}],"articleSection":"World","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltef96b7c02d6c677e/69887be0cd1bba0e016ff3c3/daallo-airlines-somalia.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"MOGADISHU, SOMALIA - FEBRUARY 2: A view of an airliner after an explosion aboard Daallo Airlines Airbus flying to Djibouti, on February 2, 2016. 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