this just doesnt make any sense at all...
The plane made a ground-loop coming to stop with the tail pointing almost in the direction of travel. Pics in link posted by dakota_bandit show it clearly.
it seems they pulled off a nice controlled crash...
Not really, by the looks of it the terrain was forgiving, but from the moment the LG was shorn off they were just passengers on the ride. Looking at the state of the nose section, there are six very lucky Egyptians out there...
There is a former military airstrip in the general area where they came down, maybe they were attempting to land on the disused runway (or may actually have). It still makes no sense to me what were they doing there with insufficient reserves to get back to Mombasa, or Lamu in the worst case.
One thing is sure: price of cast aluminium pots will come down on the Mogadishu market in the coming weeks.