An Islamic school teacher has been identified as the man who carried the bomb which caused a hole in the fuselage of a commercial flight from Somalia to Djibouti on 2 February, the associated Press news agency reports.
Abdullahi Abdisalam Borleh was blown out of the Daallo Airlines-owned Airbus 321, when the bomb detonated soon after takeoff from Somalia's capital, Mogadishu, it reports.
Some intelligence officials believe that Mr Borleh, who hailed from Somalia's breakaway state of Somaliland, had knowingly carried the bomb, but this has not been conclusively established, AP adds.
Somalia's militant Islamist group al-Shabab said it carried out the explosion, but it did not identify the bombers.
No-one was killed in the blast, which happened about 15 minutes into the flight, when the plane was only at around 11,000ft (3,350m) and the cabin was not yet pressurised.
The plane an emergency landing in Somalia's capital Mogadishu.
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