Kenya: Two Pilots, Two Germans Killed in Mara Plane Crash

23 August 2012

Two pilots and two tourists died yesterday in a plane crash at the Masai Mara Game Reserve. Several passengers were seriously injured.

Sources at the Mara airstrips from where the LET 410 twenty-seater aircraft belonging to Mombasa Air Safari took off said bad weather could have caused the crash. The plane was being piloted by Captain Edward Kithui and Abubakar Sumra.

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