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An explosion ripped a hole through the fuselage of Daallo Airlines Flight D3159 just minutes after takeoff. (Photo: AP)

It’s like something out of a horror movie: A passenger caught fire and was sucked out of a hole in the side of an airplane at 14,000 feet.

Hassan Mohamed Nur, a survivor on that Daallo Airlines Flight D3159 from Mogadishu to Djibouti, told the Daily Mail: “I saw the passenger, a man in his early 60s, get sucked out of the plane. There was a huge bang. A big hole appeared in the side of the jet and the elderly passenger disappeared through it. One minute he was sat in his seat; the next he was gone. He’d been sucked out of the plane. People were screaming. We all thought we were going to die.”

Nur also reported that the man caught fire before he was sucked from his seat, and eerily, the burned body of an elderly man was found in Balad, 18 miles from Mogadishu. It’s uncertain whether this was the same man.

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https://www.yahoo.com/travel/passenger-caught-fire-and-sucked-from-plane-at-172542766.html

Video of inside plane in air with hole.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9wtTypOCrFA

 

[1044]

Wow, that is scary as hell. What could have caused that to happen. The damage seems to be in a pretty specific area, and not a place I would assume to have something combustible, like the engine or something. Could it have been sabotage?

 

[The Kree]

Can we officially call this the worst way anyone has ever died?

Wrong forum, by the way.

 

[ashecitism]

Wrong section. Ask a mod to move it. Edit: asked a mod.

Wow, that is scary as hell. What could have caused that to happen. The damage seems to be in a pretty specific area, and not a place I would assume to have something combustible, like the engine or something. Could it have been sabotage?

They're still investigating according to other sites.

Edit: Still not confirmed, but according to a CNN source TNT caused explosion on Somali airliner

Can we officially call this the worst way anyone has ever died?

If he was still conscious, then yeah, it must have been horrific.

 

[M3d10n]

Damn, that's just like an X-files episode.

 

[Arthr2ShdsJcksn]

I thought I heard it was the terrorist who got sucked out from his own bomb. Let me look it up.


...double edit... confirmed below! A nice bit of punishment for being a terrorist asshole.

 

[Cereal KiIIer]

All other passengers survived the incident, meaning this ended up being closer to a Jackass stunt than a terror attack.

http://gawker.com/report-man-ejected-from-somali-plane-in-midair-was-sui-1757112253



VIDEO: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzrpua6JHfE&feature=youtu.be

 

[Lunar15]

So basically, this is the worst suicide bombing ever?

 

[Dalek]

Everyone else survived. What a loser.