4 aircraft accidents in Kenya since 2000

The Embraer EMB-120ER operated by Transafrican Air Limited and identified as an EBB Air aircraft, departed Nairobi-Jomo Kenyatta, Kenya, on a commercial passenger charter flight to Mandera, Kenya. There were 32 passengers and four crew members on board. The aircraft overran runway after landing. It struck the airport perimeter fence, a thicket and a small embankment, coming to rest 89 metres beyond the runway end. All 36 occupants evacuated. One crew member sustained minor injuries.

The Let L-410UVP passenger plane, operated by Mombasa Air Safari, took off from Ngerende Airstrip, Kenya, for a domestic flight. 11 passengers and 2 crewmembers were onboard. The plane crashed a few seconds after takeoff. 4 occupants were killed, and 9 were injured.

The Harbin Y-12 was on a military flight from Nairobi to Marsabit with 17 passengers (most of them were Kenyan politicians) and crew members on board. They lost direction of the airstrip because of foggy weather and heavy rain and then crashed on a hill about three kilometres from Marsabit town, and burst into flames. The plane has been split into pieces with only its tail left intact. 3 passengers sited in the aft part of the plane survived. "People were putting away their newspapers and preparing for the landing," recalled one of the three survivors. "I did not hear the pilot say anything about a problem. It was just a normal landing. I just saw the hill then heard a bang. My foot was trapped between the seats. I could not pull it out. I could feel that my arm was broken." Another survivor helped him to get out of the wreckage. He added: "When l was still on the ground, l could hear some bangs and then l faded out."