Two pilots and two tourists died on the 22nd August 2012, in a plane crash at the Masai Mara Game Reserve while 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. The aircraft was flying from one
airstrip to another within the Mara when the accident happened. A Mombasa Air
Safari official who answered the phone referred the Star to the Kenya Civil
Aviation saying they cannot respond to any inquiry. "Please direct all
your questions to the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority. We cannot answer any of
your questions. That is all we can say," the Mombasa Air Safari official
said yesterday. Earlier, another company official had given this journalist
another telephone number for the administration office. "We are informed
that two crew members including the pilot are feared dead while two passengers
are said to be critically injured," a source within Mara said.
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