Nairobi Bound Plane Crashes in the Tsavo

A picture of a Cessna 172, similar to the plane that crashed at Vuria Hills in Taita Taveta County on May 31, 2021.
A picture of a Cessna 172, similar to the plane that crashed at Vuria Hills in Taita Taveta County on May 31, 2021.
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A plane headed to Nairobi from Ukunda on Tuesday evening, June 15, crashed at the Tsavo East National Park.

The pilot tried to make an emergency landing after the plane developed mechanical challenges mid-air.

One of the wings hit a tree, causing the plane to lose balance and crash-land.

A police officer and an unidentified on-looker watch as the two survivors salvage items from the crashed aircraft.
A Police Officer and an Unidentified On-Looker Watch as Two Survivors Salvage Items From the Crashed Aircraft
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According to the police, none of the two occupants in the small aircraft was injured.

The accident comes a few days after two people lost their lives on May 31 after their Cessna 172 crashed at Vuria Hills at Taita Taveta County.

Two staff badges belonging to Dr. Athman Lugogo, a doctor from Makueni County Referral Hospital, and  pilot Esther Kamande from Kenya Airports Authority were recovered from the crash site

The plane slammed into a cliff at Muanda, Vuria Hill. Poor visibility caused by heavy fog was determined to be the cause of the accident.

On January 12, several Kenya Defence Forces personnel died after a military aircraft crashed at Irima Hill at Tsavo East National Park.

Kenya Wildlife Services officials at the scene indicated that the aircraft could have crashed due to poor weather or mechanical complications.

The aircraft, a Harbin Y-12, had taken off from Moi Airbase, Eastleigh in Nairobi in the morning hours headed to Voi over an undisclosed mission.

Two soldiers were critically injured when their aircraft crashed in Taita Hills when it developed mechanical problems on March 30, 2018.

The soldiers in the single-engined KAF 720 Kenya Airforce fixed-wing aircraft were on a training mission when the crash happened.

The scene of the crash of a Cessna 172 plane at Vuria Hills in Taita Taveta County on May 31, 2021.
The scene of the crash of a Cessna 172 plane at Vuria Hills in Taita Taveta County on May 31, 2021.
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