Kenyan plane crash kills two
A light aircraft crashed at the Nairobi National Park on Wednesday, 9th October, killing two people.
The aircraft which had taken off from the Wilson Airport went down after a short while, an instructor and trainee pilot were the only passangers aboard.
It is reported that the instructor and his student were going on a flying session when the accident occurred. “The plane caught fire during take off from Wilson Airport at about 10.301am” The National Disaster Operations Center (NDOC) officals disclosed. Preliminary findings show that the plane crashed barely three minutes after take-off.
According to reports form The Wilson Airport Police Station “ Two people have been burnt to death, the impact was huge but the cause is not known yet”.
Sources reveal that the Cessna 172 plane crashed about three kilometres from the airport.
At the scene, Jospeh Ngisa, the Airport CID boss said “ we have to wait for the experts to finish their probe into this crash before we know what transpired”
Last year, the Kenyan government decided to relocate slum dwellers who lived just outside the Wilson Airport to avoid mass casualties when planes crash.
Over the past few years Kenya has grown as a popular tourist destination, with visitors coming from all over the world – an estimated 1.8 million holiday makers are thought to visit the east African nation yearly.
After tea exports, tourism is the second largest source of foreign income for this east African nation. This industry which generates more than $1 billion annually has received several blows following last week’s terror attack on an upscale mall frequented by foreigners.
Earlier this year in the mountainous Aberdare national Park, a plane crashed claiming the lives of three Swiss nationals.