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Honeymooners die in plane crash
04/07/2007 11:00 - (SA)
Nairobi - Two newlyweds who were travelling to Kenya's Masai Mara game reserve for their honeymoon were killed after their four-seater plane crashed, said a tour operator on Wednesday.
The pilot, the only other person on board, also was killed after the plane went down on Tuesday, about 80km from the park.
Will Jones, managing director of Journeys by Design, a Britain-based tour company that organised the holiday, said the passengers were German citizens who had been living in Switzerland.
He did not give their names or ages. Jones said: "They have been on a honeymoon." Joseph Mumira, a police investigator at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, said the pilot was Kenyan.
He said the plane took off at 07:30, but disappeared from radar an hour later. The Masai Mara National Reserve, about 275km from Nairobi, covered about 1 510 square kilometres.
July marked the beginning of the "Great Migration", after more than a million wildebeest, zebras and associated predators following seasonal rains crossed from Tanzania's Serengeti into the Masai Mara in search of fresh grass.
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