A student pilot and trainer have been killed after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over Nairobi, police say.
The aircraft, belonging to a flying school, crashed in Nairobi National Park, killing the two people at around 7:05 GMT on Tuesday (March 5).
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Meanwhile, the Safarilink passenger plane returned to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport from where it had taken off with 44 people on board.
The 39 passengers and five crew members were all unharmed, the airline said. The aircraft, bound for Diani on Kenya’s coast, had “experienced a loud bang soon after take-off”, it said, reports BBC.
The Cessna plane operated by Ninety-Nines Flying School crashed in the game park about 10km from the airport.
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said its air accidents department and the police had begun an investigation into the cause of the accident.
Wilson Airport is a small but very busy airport in the capital that mostly serves domestic flights. There have been a number of accidents over the years involving small aircraft from the airport.
