Following the shoot-down of two TransaviaExport IL76 Candids (09 Mar and 23 Mar), Belarusian aviation authorities have told their airlines to stop flying over Somalia. TransaviaExport and Gomelavia both have UN contracts to support peacekeeping operations in Somalia. The latest shootdown claimed 11 lives. The second IL76 was departing Mogadishu after dropping off an assessment team that was to look over the feasibility of repairing the earlier damaged plane. It reported an engine fire passing 10,000ft and was in the process of returning to Mogadishu when the starboard wing detached. Eyewitnesses report having seen a missile fired at the plane as it passed through around 1500ft in the climb. Mogadishu is rapidly becoming a no-go area for all air traffic. "The plane was shot down," Belarussian Transport Ministry spokeswoman Ksenia Perestoronina said in Minsk on Saturday, adding that the large Ilyushin plane, in Somalia to assist struggling African peacekeepers, was hit at a height of 150 meters.