{"id":581542,"date":"2026-02-11T05:44:13","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:44:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/581542\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T05:44:13","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T05:44:13","slug":"passengers-walk-away-after-plane-ends-up-in-ocean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/581542\/","title":{"rendered":"Passengers Walk Away After Plane Ends Up in Ocean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        Passengers aboard a Somali flight ended up in the Indian Ocean\u2014and walked away. A Starsky Airlines Fokker 50 with 50 passengers and five crew reported a technical problem shortly after taking off from Mogadishu on Tuesday and turned back to the capital&#8217;s airport, according to Somalia&#8217;s Civil Aviation Authority. The plane landed but couldn&#8217;t stop, overshooting the runway and coming to rest in shallow water along the shoreline near the airport, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/articles\/c2d1pz3pxewo\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BBC<\/a> reports. Photos posted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/aussom_\/status\/2021216081969344943?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow\">X<\/a> showed passengers climbing out and walking away from the wreckage; officials say there were no fatalities or serious injuries&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n<p class=\"storyParagraph\">&#13;<br \/>\n                                        The African Union mission said United Nations and AU troops were quickly sent to assist with rescue efforts, and Somalia&#8217;s transport minister visited the scene. Starsky Airlines said it is relieved all on board are safe and it is investigating the issue that led to the emergency landing. &#8220;The pilot&#8217;s swift and calm decision-making played a decisive role in ensuring the safety of everyone on board, and we commend him for how he handled the situation,&#8221; airline spokesman Hassan Mohamed Aden said. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flightglobal.com\/safety\/somalian-fokker-50-badly-damaged-after-overrunning-onto-mogadishu-beach\/166274.article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">FlightGlobal<\/a> reports that the aircraft, built in 1990 and acquired by Starsky in 2023, suffered serious damage including a fractured right wing.&#13;\n                                    <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; Passengers aboard a Somali flight ended up in the Indian Ocean\u2014and walked away. A Starsky Airlines Fokker&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":581543,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[70722,67648,73284,50,57315,5884,73283,103],"class_list":["post-581542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-world","tag-emergency-landing","tag-indian-ocean","tag-mogadishu","tag-news","tag-pilot","tag-plane-crash","tag-somalia","tag-world"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116050412661963391","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581542","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581542"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581542\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/581543"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}