Turkish airline to set up separate security system at Mogadishu airport

Turkish airlines will have special security arrangements at the Ade Adde Airport when it resumes operations next week, Goobjoog News has exclusively learnt.

The airline which suspended flights to Mogadishu following the botched bomb attack on Dallo Airlines plane in February will operate under separate security systems, a source privy to the airline’s security measures told Goobjoog News.

A Turkish airline cargo plane landed in Mogadishu Sunday to deliver security equipments and personnel who will ensure the airline security processes meet their standards.

The Dallo incident in which a suicide bomber was sucked out of the plane after a bomb implanted on his laptop went off raised security concerns at the country’s biggest aviation facility. Reports indicated the bomber was targeting a Turkish plane.

A Turkish Foreign Affairs official told Goobjoog News early this month Turkey was still conducting security assessment at the airport in Mogadishu before resuming operations. It is not immediately clear if the airline will operate outside the main terminal at the airport.

Passengers from Somalia now have to catch a Turkish airline flight from Nairobi.