NAIROBI, Feb 15 (NNN-AGENCIES) – A Kenyan pilot and four foreigners have died after a small plane carrying them from Kenya’s Maasai Mara nature reserve crashed in the west of the country, police said.
“There were five occupants in the plane and they did not survive,” said
Edward Mwamburi, police chief for the Rift Valley region.
He said the Cessna plane was heading Wednesday from the famed Maasai Mara to Lodwar, near Lake Turkana, which is also popular with tourists.
“There was a Kenyan pilot on board and four foreign nationals,” said James
Mugera, commander with the Kericho police.
Emergency services have been sent to the scene.
In June last year, a plane belonging to the FlySAX airline crashed on the
edge of the Aberdares mountain range, leaving 10 people dead.
In October 2017 five passengers were killed when a helicopter crashed into
Lake Nakuru, while in 2012 a helicopter carrying internal security minister
George Saitoti crashed, killing all six passengers on board.
Kenya’s worst crash in recent years took place in 2007, when a Kenya
Airways flight from Abidjan to Nairobi via Douala crashed into a swamp after take-off, killing all 114 passengers.
In 2000 another Kenya Airways flight from Abidjan to Nairobi crashed into
the Atlantic Ocean minutes after take-off, killing 169 people while 10
survived. — NNN-AGENCIES
