MOGADISHU (Halbeeg News) – Kenya Civil Aviation Authority has confirmed it will launch investigation into an accident which involve in a small plane operated by Skyward Express company.
The plane, registration number 5Y-GRS, crash landed at Burahache military camp, El Wak, Gedo region in Somalia near the border with Kenya.
The plane had left Wilson Airport on Wednesday morning but suffered a mechanical problem, forcing the pilot to land.
It was not immediately clear how the light plane, which had at least 40 passengers on board, ended up in an airstrip that is under construction in Boru Hache, a town neighbouring Elwak in Mandera South.
In a statement, KCAA director general Gilbert Kibe said investigators from the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority would visit the site to probe the accident.
“It was near the Kenya-Somalia border at Elwak airstrip and we are investigating it. No injuries reported so far,” the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) Director General Gilbert Kibe said on the phone.
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