Two killed in plane crash near Wilson Airport

Two people were killed on Wednesday after a light aircraft crashed shortly after take-off from Wilson Airport, Nairobi.

Police say the aircraft crashed inside the Nairobi National Park shortly after 9am and those who died are an instructor and a trainee.

Police said the aircraft, belonging to Skylink Aviation, crashed three minutes after take-off after developing a mechanical problem.

Scene of crime experts from the police and Air Accident Investigation Unit are at the scene.

Several people have been killed in plane crashes in the country this year.

In July this year, three people were killed when an aircraft crashed at the Aberdare Mountains. The aircrafts pilot and his two passengers died on the spot.

They had left Lentille airstrip in Laikipia and was expected to land at the Wilson airport at 5.25pm.

It however went missing at around 5pm. The wreckage of the Cessna 206, registration number 5Y BUG, was later found by the Kenya Wildlife Service personal who were using a helicopter.

In February this year, the director of the Laikipia Wildlife Forum Trust Fund Dr Anthony King who was piloting an aircraft was killed alongside a Canadian journalist when the plane crashed in Mount Kenya forest near Lake Mickleson.