An aircraft from Djibouti carrying humanitarian aid crashed at an airport in central Somalia on Tuesday, leaving a thick black smoke visible for miles.
The plane crashed at Beledweyne Airport, also known as Haaji-shiekh hamud hasan Airport, in the area of Hiran.
PLANE WAS ON A HUMANITARIAN MISSION
“The plane crashed just as it landed. We managed to rescue three people before it burst into flames,” a local in the area told local media, without giving any more details on whether there were other occupants inside the plane or not.
Aviation Safety Network, which monitors aircraft accidents, said in a statement posted on its official Twitter handle that the plane was a “A Kenyan DHC-8 aircraft [which] crashed and burst into flames at Beledweyne Airport, Somalia. Reportedly everyone on board survived the accident.”
Local media reported that the plane was carrying humanitarian aid for people displaced by floods in Beledweyne.