SERBIAN PILOT VLADIMIR IS THE HERO OF THE UNIVERSE: He did the impossible and saved 74 passengers of certain death!

Pilot Vladimir Vodopivec (64) from Belgrade, Serbia, managed to land the plane safely this morning with 74 passengers and crew members to the airport in Mogadishu, Somalia, after the explosion blew out a part of the right end of the vehicle, reports Blic news agency.

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World media stated that the pilot "did the impossible", because nobody died in the incident.

- Half an hour after we took off from the airport in Somalia, we heard a terrible explosion at the height of 3.300m. Passengers started yelling, and I returned to the airport immediately. Fortunately, no one was gravely injured - says Vladimir Vodopivec.

Vodopivec told this to his friend in Belgrade, and to prove that the situation was serious, there is a photo of the damaged plane where you can see the a hole big as three airplane windows.

"Dalo airlines" airplane with 74 passengers, with 70 of them being Turkish residents, had to land early this morning to the airport just a couple of minutes after taking off from the airport Aden Ade in Mogadishu, on its way to Djibouti.

Somalian traffic minister Ali Ahmed Jem Jangelli claims that the incident was not lethal because all the passengers were saved when the plane landed, and that the official investigation will show the cause of the explosion.

- We do not want to say beforehand who is behind this incident. For now it is not known whether it was a technical problem or a suicide attack. The biggest concern was to save the passengers and avoid the scenario of them being trapped in the burning plane - said the minister.

Foto: Profimedia/Abaca

However, media are speculating that it was indeed a suicide attack, that the explosive was brought into the plane by one of the passengers.

The residents of Ballad, the suburban area close to Mogadishu said that they saw the explosion and that they saw a "body in flames falling from the sky".

Our pilot thinks the same.

Foto: Profimedia/Abaca

- I think this was about a bomb, but fortunately, our driving system was not damages so I could get back in time and land on the airport. This has never happened to me. We lost the cabin pressure, but thank God that everything went well - Vodopivec said to his friend.

Vodopivec, born in Belgrade, is an experienced pilot who worked for JAT and "Montenegro Airlines" and for the last few years he flies in Africa, since he got a job in "Dalo Airlines".

Soon, according to his friend, he will retire.

The British media reported that the pilot made an extraordinary thing because he managed to land down the plane in those conditions.

Emergency crews were waiting for the plane at the airstrip.

Rescue teams were shocked when they saw the big hole on the side of the plane.

Airport officials stated that all the passengers and crew members survived the incident but three passengers were mildly injured.

All the passengers were also questioned about everything what happened.

This is not the first time that a plane had an emergency landing at the airport Aden Ale.

During 2013, the airplane which carried the Somalian president Hassan Mohammad, en route to South African Republic had to land due to the engine failure.

"Dalo Airlines" is a company from Somalia with their residence in non-customs area in the city of Dubai, UAE, and it covers services at the Horn of Africa and the Middle East.

No one from the company has made an official statement.

(Telegraf.co.uk / Source: Blic)