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Passenger plane skids on runaway, catches fire in Mogadishu

Somalia's  Aden Abdulle International Airport in Mogadishu. FILE PHOTO | POOL

By  Abdulkadir Khalif

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Nation Media Group

A Jubba Airways passenger plane crash-landed at Somalia’s Aden Abdulle International Airport on Monday.

The plane on a domestic flight from Baidoa town, 240km southwest of Mogadishu, was landing on the seafront runway when it slid and caught fire.

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