Gruesome plane crash
2003-07-20 19:08
Nairobi - Bad weather and difficult terrain are complicating the recovering of the bodies of the two South African pilots and 12 American tourists who were killed when their plane crashed into Mount Kenya.
Kenyan officials will try to recover the bodies on Monday morning. Eight American passports were found at the crash site but officials haven't released the names of the deceased yet.
The doomed plane, a Fairchild SW-4, belongs to Air-2000, a South African charter company.
According to Anne Gaines-Burril, a director of Air-2000, the plane departed from Lanseria Airport near Johannesburg on Saturday morning.
The plane was on its way to Buffalo Springs National Reserve when it crashed at about 18:00 on Saturday into Point Lenana, Mount Kenya's third highest peak.
A senior police official, David Kimaiyo, said body parts were scattered across Lenana Peak when rescue workers arrived at the scene.
"It was a terrible accident. Rescuers from the civil aviation and Kenyan police found human flesh scattered all over the scene of the accident," Kimaiyo said.
- News24