Kenya Plane Crash LIVE: Atleast 11 Dead After Light Aircraft Carrying Tourists Crashes in Kenya #Firstpost

The plane was travelling from the resort town of Diani on the Indian Ocean coast to Kenya’s Maasai Mara reserve when it crashed at about 0830 local time (0530 GMT), the aviation authority said.

Smoke rose from the wreckage of the plane, which came down in a forested area in Kwale County in Kenya’s southeast. The holidaymakers’ clothes were scattered on the ground and in nearby trees. Kenya’s government said investigators had been sent to find out what had happened.

“It will be appropriate once all the information that is of the persons who were in the plane has been adequately collected and confirmed,” said Kenya’s Permanent Secretary, State Department of Immigration And Citizen Affairs who visited the scene.

The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said it was cooperating with the investigations.

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