A small aircraft travelling from Kenya’s coastal town of Diani to the Maasai Mara National Park crashed early Tuesday, leaving all 12 people on board feared dead.
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA), in a statement, confirmed that the plane went down around 5:30 a.m. local time (0230 GMT) while en route to Kichwa Tembo, a private airstrip within the Maasai Mara.
“The aircraft had 12 persons on board,” the statement read, adding that government agencies had been deployed to the crash site to determine the cause of the accident.
No additional details were immediately available regarding the identities of the passengers or the nature of the flight.
The crash comes just two months after a light aircraft operated by medical charity Amref went down on the outskirts of Nairobi, killing six people and injuring two others.
