The US Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion (FAA) has banned all US air­lines from fly­ing over So­ma­lia deem­ing it too dan­ger­ous. Fed­eral Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion has cited threats from armed group Al Shabaab to the air­lines us­ing the route say­ing sim­i­lar at­tacks like that of the Ukrain­ian rebels down­ing of MH17 in east­ern rebel con­trolled area last July could hap­pen.

All 298 peo­ple aboard the Boe­ing 777 fly­ing from Am­s­ter­dam to Kuala Lumpur were killed when it was shot down on 17 July last year over a rebel-held area. US avi­a­tion au­thor­ity be­lieves Al Shabaab has the ca­pa­bil­ity to tar­get air­lines fly­ing in So­mali air­space.

Fed­eral gov­ern­ment of So­ma­lia has not com­mented on this lat­est ban the from US fed­eral Avi­a­tion Ad­min­is­tra­tion con­cern­ing its air­space.

This lat­est warn­ing also comes days af­ter US state de­part­ment is­sued travel ad­vi­sory to its cit­i­zens trav­el­ling to Kenya cit­ing planed ter­ror at­tacks against US and west­ern in­ter­est in Kenya.