A Dash-8 aircraft registered in Kenya as 5Y-MHT, on its way to deliver supplies to the African Union Mission (Amisom) crashed at Mogadishu’s main airport in Somalia
Following the accident, the Aden Adde International Airport was shut down briefly
A Dash-8 aircraft registered in Kenya as 5Y-MHT, which was on it’s way to deliver supplies to the African Union Mission (Amisom) forces in Beledwyene, some 335 km north of Mogadishu in Central Somalia crashed at Mogadishu’s main airport in Somalia during take-off. Following the accident, the Aden Adde International Airport was shut down briefly. All the occupants were rescued and taken to the nearby African Union Mission Hospital in Mogadishu
According to officials the aircraft developed a technical snag and failed to lift while taking off and hit a perimeter wall of the airport. It circled around the airport at a low altitude before attempting an emergency landing.
The aircraft was on its routine flight to and deliver supplies to both UN and Amisom centers. This is the third accident in Somalia of a Kenyan aircraft this year. In July, another plane crashed as it landed at Beledweyne airport. The Fokker plane operated by Blue Bird Aviation, to deliver foodstuff and other humanitarian supplies to Beledwyene had flown with the goods from Djibouti City. In another incident in May, a Kenyan aircraft was shot down as it approached an airstrip in Bardale manned by the Ethiopian troops killing all the six persons on board.
