Hand of God: All rescued as Somali plane lands upside-down
Sopuruchi Onwuka, with agency reports
In what is now described as miracle, all passengers and crew on a plane that crashed landed, went up in flames and flipped upside down have been rescued alive in Somalia.
The Oracle Today gathered that the plane crashed and flipped over on landing at the airport in Somalia’s with more than 30 people on board.
Big balls of flame which billowed huge clouds of smoke had covered the plane from sight and firemen gunned down the inferno with water cannons as rescue workers deployed to the crash scene.
As the smoke faded away, the image of the crashed plane emerged with the landing gears in the air as the plane lay on its back, revealing that the aircraft had skidded and flipped upside down during the rough landing.
All the 30 people on board were rescued with minimum injuries during the incident over which the Mogadishu Airport suspended flight operations temporarily.
Dramatic footage shot near the airport in Mogadishu shows thick black smoke rising above the crash site.
The aircraft, it was gathered, belonged to Jubba Airways and was on an internal flight from the city of Baidoa to Mogadishu.
Airport authorities confirmed that all passengers and the crew were all rescued, adding that investigations have been launched to ascertain the cause of the crash.
