Daallo Airlines CEO Mohamed Ibrahim Yasin Olad has confirmed that a male passenger is missing from the flight which was forced to land with a gaping hole in its side in the capital Mogadishu on Tuesday.
Mr Olad told the BBC Somali service that the missing man has been identified from the plane's manifest.
This contradicts an earlier statement by the airline that all passengers were safely evacuated.
US government sources have been quoted as saying that investigators believe a bomb exploded on the plane, but there has been no confirmation of this.
The company has maintained until now that all 74 passengers from the flight were accounted for.
Investigators will need to establish whether a body found by residents near the capital Mogadishu matches the identity of the missing passenger.
Mr Olad said the company expected an outcome of the investigation within the next two days.
The plane was flying to neighbouring Djibouti, when it was forced to make an emergency landing soon after take-off.
Daallo Airlines is Djibouti's national carrier.
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