Seven military officers, a police officer and two pilots escaped with injuries on Sunday afternoon when a Kenya Government Cessna 208 Grand Caravan (registered 5Y-GOK) departed Kiunga Airstrip, Lamu County, Kenya but clipped electrical wires and crashed into a coconut farm.
Shortly after the impact, the aircraft caught fire. One house was burned.
Local authorities confirmed the accident, and said that the ten were returning to Kenya’s capital Nairobi after dropping off students from an educational tour in Nairobi.
Kenya Government Cessna 208 Grand Caravan (5Y-GOK, built 2011) clipped electrical wires, crashed into a coconut farm at Kiunga Airstrip (KE6998), Lamu County, Kenya, and caught fire. Several were injured among the 10 occupants on a flight back to Nairobi. https://t.co/YwWFNmoEyo https://t.co/U3iiTrILoE pic.twitter.com/LUzR2KFys0
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