AN AIRCRAFT with 14 passengers has crashed in Kenya's Maasai Mara national park, one of the East African's country's most popular safari destinations for tourists, officials said.
Two pilots and a woman passenger died Wednesday after a plane crashed at an airstrip in the Maasai Mara Game Reserve.
Six passengers on board the 5YUV7 light aircraft, belonging to Mombasa air, were seriously injured as the pilots prepared to land at Ngerede Airstrip near the Mara Safari Club.
The airstrip manager Daniel Jivai, who spoke to Nation on the telephone, said he saw the aircraft wobble before it came down at around 12:17 pm.
He said 12 tourists, who were travelling from Mombasa to the Mara, were on board the plane at the time of the accident.
Three of the passengers were trapped in the wreckage but were rescued by hotel and airstrip personnel.
The rest of the passengers were receiving first aid.
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