This from today's London Times.
Safari air deaths
Four British tourists, three women and a man, died with a Canadian pilot when their five-seater aircraft crashed in a remote region of Mahale National Park in Tanzania, East Africa. They were on a safari sightseeing flight from Lake Tanganyika and are thought to have been staying at Greystoke Camp.
And further from The Telegraph.
Safari plane crash kills four Britons
By Mike Pflanz in Nairobi
(Filed: 19/10/2005)
Four Britons on a safari holiday were killed when their five-seater Cessna plane crashed in a remote area of west Tanzania close to Mahale National Park.
The Foreign Office confirmed yesterday that the three women and one man, on a holiday booked through the tour operator Nomad, died along with their Canadian pilot.
It was understood that the plane had been missing since Sunday afternoon, when it took off from Mahale bound for Katavi National Park.
The bodies were recovered yesterday from the wreckage of the light aircraft after search parties in four planes spent Monday combing the remote mountains between Mahale and Katavi National Parks, near Lake Tanganyika, before the crash site was found. It then took a ground team until early yesterday to reach the site on foot.
The two parks are famed for their families of chimpanzees and forested peaks soaring to 7,500ft above Lake Tanganyika. The areas are so remote there are no paved roads and all visitors and supplies have to be flown in.
Despite covering almost 1,000 square miles, Mahale National Park receives fewer than 100 visitors a year.
It is thought that the Britons had been staying at the Greystoke camp, a luxurious tented complex on the eastern shores of Lake Tanganyika below a tropical forest and the Mahale Mountains.
Nomad said Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority inspectors were on their way to the area.
"Our thoughts and prayers are with the families of those involved. We will release further information as and when it becomes available," said a spokesman for the company.
A Foreign Office spokesman said consular staff were awaiting confirmation of the deaths.
Mark Holdsworth, managing director of Nomad, said the Cessna had taken off from the Mahale airstrip on Sunday afternoon.
"Contact was lost soon after take-off and the aircraft failed to arrive at its destination," he said. "A search was instigated using four aircraft and a crash site was identified."