Nairobi: A plane belonging to an air ambulance service provider crashed in a residential area just outside Kenya’s capital on Thursday, killing at least six people, according to a local official and the aircraft’s owner.
AMREF Flying Doctors said that the mid-size jet, a Cessna Citation XLS, took off from an airport in
Nairobi and was heading to the territory of Somaliland when it crashed.
The service provider didn’t provide the number of casualties or a possible cause, saying in a statement that it was “cooperating fully with relevant aviation authorities and emergency response teams to establish the facts surrounding the situation.”
The plane crashed in the residential area of Mwihoko in Kiambu County, which shares a border
with Nairobi.agencies