crashed in western Kenya

[mvand003]

anybody anything on this?

21dec00 Four Britons were seriously injured on Thursday when their small plane crashed in western Kenya, police said. Local police chief Etyang Polycarp said the six-seater plane went down in heavy rain around midday (4 a.m. EST) in Oketukat, a small village 80 miles west of the capital Nairobi. "What we know is that the plane came down after one of its engines failed,'' Polycarp said. All four aboard the aircraft were flown from the nearby town of Narok to hospital in Nairobi. Polycarp said the four tourists were on their way to Nairobi from Rusiniga Island camp on Lake Victoria when the accident occurred. He gave no further details.

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Nairobi, Kenya (PANA) (Panafrican News Agency, December 22, 2000) - Four British nationals narrowly escaped death Thursday evening when their twin-engine plane crashed into a forest at the Oletukat area of Narok district, some 100-km south-west of Nairobi, Kenyan press reported Friday.

The four, resident in Kenya, sustained serious injuries after they were rescued from the mangled plane by a team of police officers, led by area police station boss, Kithuni Mwenda, the East African Standard reported Friday.

They were flown by an African Air Rescue (AAR) plane to a Nairobi hospital after receiving first aid treatment at the Narok district hospital.

Police spokesman, Peter Kimanthi, told journalists Friday the four were in stable condition and out of danger.

Narok District police boss, Polycarp Etyang, told PANA by telephone that the plane apparently crashed after one of its engines failed.

He said the Britons were coming from the Rusinga Island tourist sanctuary in Lake Victoria when the accident occurred.

They were identified as Ryan Pale, 65, the pilot and a farmer in Naivasha, about 100-km west of Nairobi, Armitage Stuart, 51, and his two sons, Tim Armitage, 18, and Michael Armitage, 16.

Kimanthi said Pale suffered broken ribs and head, leg and hand injuries. The Armitages suffered injuries on the heads, abdomens and legs.

Etyang said Civil Aviation officers were investigating the crash.

[Ndege]

Yes, I saw them in Narok. A Cessna 337 "push-pull" won't work well on one engine, and they ended up, quite violently, on a tree. Everybody is fine and they were discharged from hospital the next day.
Ndege