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Daallo Airlines Bombing www.asi-mag.com THE GLOBAL JOURNAL OF AIRPORT & AIRLINE SECURITY Daallo Airlines ALSO: Bombing: EGYPTAIR FLIGHT 804 INVESTIGATION CIVIL LIBERTIES VS AVIATION SECURITY interview with TERMINAL EVACUATIONS RETURNING FOREIGN FIGHTERS Captain Vladimir Vodopivec DAALLO AIRLINES FLIGHT ATTENDANTS ISSUE SPONSORED BY: ONE-STOP FT. LAUDERDALE SECURITY SHOOTING FEBRUARY 2017 VOLUME 23 ISSUE 1 17 48 INTERVIEW: CAPTAIN VLADIMIR ‘VLATKO’ VODOPIVEC One year ago, on 2nd February 2016, Daallo Airlines flight 159 departed Mogadishu bound for Djibouti. In the cockpit’s left-hand seat was an experienced Serbian captain, Vladimir (Vlatko) Vodopivec, who had no idea that this was to be his final flight. Shortly after departure, a passenger, seated in a window seat in the sixteenth row, detonated, either knowingly or unwittingly, the improvised explosive device concealed within the laptop computer he had brought on board – one given to him, after the screening checkpoint, by airport-based employees. The blast ripped a hole in the Airbus’ fuselage and sucked Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh out of the aircraft. But the explosion had taken place at relatively low altitude and Captain Vodopivec was able to maintain control of the aircraft and return to, and safely land in, the Somali capital. On the anniversary of the attack, Philip Baum travelled to Belgrade to meet with the heroic commander to hear his account of the Daallo Airlines bombing. PB: How long have you been flying? VV: This was a contract for Daallo. Flying there, it’s really wild; you can’t I was employed by Hermes Airlines, a compare it to normal aviation [like] in VV: I started flying here, for JAT Greek company. They had six aircraft, Europe, because these airports are like [Jugoslovenski Aerotransport], 44 years [of which] Daallo had one in Djibouti Mogadishu - never safe at all. You don’t ago when I was 22 and I became a first and one in Dubai and covered the have met [meteorology] reports, you officer. At age 28 I became a captain and countries between the United Arab don’t have communication, nothing, it’s then, when I was 35 or 36, I moved for the Emirates and Kenya. Mostly the HF [high frequency] communication. It’s first time to Adria Airways in Slovenia. passengers are from Somalia; that’s a piece of asphalt and nothing else; We [Serbia and Slovenia] were together at where the money is also from - Somali no lights, no ILS [instrument landing that time [as part of Yugoslavia], but then money invested in the company. We system], nothing, not even NDB [non- the war started - the civil war between our used to go there for one month, then directional beacon]; nothing. You come, countries. I moved to Macedonia, then off for two weeks and then one month if it’s good weather, you’ll land and that’s Montenegro and, after the war, to Africa, again. That’s the operation. it. Especially Mogadishu, it’s dangerous. starting with Nigeria, and then Cameroon, You can only use one direction for the Gambia, Egypt, Djibouti. I’ve been flying PB: So you were living in Somalia? landing because on the other side is a city, in a lot of places where there have been if you can call it a city. If you approach wars. Everywhere I go! I also flew for five VV: No, Djibouti. We were living in from over the city for the landing, it’s 150 years [for BelleAir] in Albania. the Kempinski Hotel, or, at times, in metres from where they are shooting for Dubai close to the airport, flying two fun! That is why we always land from PB: And working for Daallo Airlines? days on, one day off; it’s a normal the sea-side with 20-25 knots tailwind… operation with these two Airbus A-321. which is not allowed, but it’s the only 22 February 2017 Aviation Security International way. All operations there are very… shall “…Mogadishu, it’s dangerous. Turkish Airlines]? To me, it’s stupid we say…dangerous. because all the investments in the airport You can only use one are from Turkish Airlines; they built a PB: So you had flown into Mogadishu direction for the landing new building there with all these security many times? facilities. Everything is brand new, but I because on the other side is a don’t know if it’s working or not. VV: Yes. I first flew there in 1986 with city. If you approach from over JAT, but at that time it was much better - PB: Why do you believe that Daallo peaceful, not like now. the city for the landing, it’s Airlines was not the intended target? 150 metres from where they PB: How well did you know the crew VV: Because it was not logical. We were that you were flying with last February? are shooting for fun…” a Somali company, carrying only Somali people, with Somali money invested in VV: Well, as we spent a month there [on experience, was that he had applied to it. There was no reason to put a bomb each tour of duty], living like a family; some [other] companies for a job but on our aircraft. Whenever we were going three [sets of] crew on the two aircraft. every time the answer was, “Wait for the somewhere, I used to check [research] The crew [on D3 159] was what you 500 hours then send the documents”. something about the country, about its would call ‘international’: two girls from Always the same answer. But the day after people, and whatever I could find on the Greece, one girl from Bosnia and the the incident, they sent him a message, Internet. Or, I asked somebody. I spent other three were local staff - two guys and “OK, you are accepted, you’ve had the almost ten years in Africa, and that’s the one girl were from Kenya and two from experience!” One month later he sent me only way to survive there. Djibouti. Every crew is the same: three the contract [to see]. locals and three from other countries. We PB: After landing, who did the always had six cabin crew. PB: On 2 February last year you were authorities tell you was responsible? carrying Turkish Airlines passengers? PB: And with you on the flight deck? VV: They wrote a report that said that VV: Yes. I had a flight from Djibouti to maybe the cabin staff made a mistake, VV: On the flight deck were only the Mogadishu and back that was scheduled, that maybe they activated one of the captain and first officer. We had generally with ninety-something to Mogadishu [oxygen] canisters, which was stupid. I very, very young and inexperienced first and five passengers on the flight back told them that I didn’t want to sign that officers because that was the policy of to Djibouti. Then they told me, “You report. The chief of security at the airport Hermes company. The guys go there and have 87.” Why? Nobody knew why. They said, “OK, in that case, you have to stay pay to fly because they need 500 hours to boarded the people; they were a little here. You can’t go.” I told them, “OK, I try to find a job somewhere else. bit late – 20 minutes I think. Depending will stay, but I am not signing anything.” on what type of bomb it was, maybe I asked them to release my crew and they PB: So where was your first officer from? these 20 minutes saved our lives. In 20 told me they could go, but they [the crew] minutes we’d have been at 30,000 and didn’t want to go without me so they sent VV: He was 23 or 24 years old, 220 then: goodbye! us all to the hotel. hours, zero experience but he was really very good - an Italian guy, Riccardo PB: What were you told about the PB: Where did you stay? [Bonaldi]. And the funny thing, perhaps Turkish Airlines flight? the only good thing to come out of the VV: I didn’t want to go to the hotel VV: We found out that Turkish had downtown because two weeks earlier the cancelled their flight and that they had crew of a small business jet went to a received a warning from somebody hotel there and the next morning they had before about a bomb two days before. disappeared…which is a normal thing But, they didn’t tell anyone about this there. They told us, “The airport area warning [at the time and later claimed is the safest place in Somalia. All the that they had cancelled the flight due missions, the United Nations; everyone to weather]. Why [would they bomb is there.” I agreed and they called two CCTV footage shows airport employees handing the computer containing the bomb to Borleh. Captain Vodopivec has had considerable experience flying in Africa and was photographed here in Abuja, Nigeria. February 2017 Aviation Security International EUR +44 (0)20 3892 3050 USA +1 920 214 0140 www.asi-mag.com 23 DAALLO AIRLINES BOMBING: THE CABIN CREW PERSPECTIVE So often, summaries of aviation security events downplay – and sometimes ignore altogether – the crucial role that cabin crew play in times of crisis. But cabin crew are the main point of contact between an airline and its passengers, and the eyes and ears of the flight. With this in mind, the following is an account by Alexandra James, of what happened inside the cabin of flight D3159 on 2nd February 2016, informed by interviews conducted by Philip Baum with senior purser, Tania Zacharia, and flight attendant,Mirna Bešlagić.
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