AIRCRAFT DESIGN: ADDRESSING SECURITY CONCERNS

摘要

When a Somali military court convicted ten suspects for organising this February's bomb attack on Daallo Airlines, the reality of the potential for further significant attacks on the industry became apparent. The explosion on the Daallo Airlines Airbus 321 flight occurred around 15 minutes after take-off from Mogadishu, when the plane was at approximately 11,000ft (3,350m). Only the bomb carrier was killed and the pilot was able to make an emergency landing back at Mogadishu airport, aborting the flight to Djibouti. Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab took responsibility for the attack, later admitting that it had failed to bring down the aircraft since the aircraft assembly had withstood the blast.