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Kenya Plane Crash Kills Two People, Police Say

Map of Kenya highlighting the nation's capital, Nairobi, where two people died in a plane crash on March 5, 2024.
Map of Kenya highlighting the nation's capital, Nairobi, where two people died in a plane crash on March 5, 2024.

NAIROBI — Kenyan police on Tuesday said two people died in the East African nation’s capital, Nairobi after a crash involving a training aircraft and a passenger plane.

The incident occurred at 1005 local time between a plane belonging to a flying school and a Safarilink passenger aircraft, Kenya's Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.

Local airline Safarilink said passengers on its plane bound for the coastal resort of Diani were unharmed.

"I can confirm a student and a trainer (on the training aircraft) ... died during the incident," Nairobi county police commander Adamson Bungei said without providing more details.

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