A student pilot and trainer have been killed after their aircraft collided with a passenger plane over Kenya’s capital, Nairobi.
The aircraft, belonging to a flying school, then crashed in Nairobi National Park, killing the two people.
The Safarilink passenger plane returned to Nairobi’s Wilson Airport from where it had taken off with forty-four people on board and according to the airline, the thirty-nine passengers and five crew members were all unharmed
It added that the aircraft, bound for Diani on Kenya’s coast, had “experienced a loud bang soon after take-off” while the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) said its air accidents department and the police had begun an investigation into the cause of the accident.
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