(Posted 26th March 2024)
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A twin engined jet aircraft, while landing at Wilson Airport in Nairobi, appears to have left the runway while trying to exit into a taxiway and subsequently got stuck in the mud. Registered at 5Y-MMB is the plane described as a Fokker 70 aircraft, reportedly owned and operated by Salaam Air Express since the beginning of December 2022. The aircraft had entered service initially in October 1995 with Austrian Airlines.
The accident happened just three weeks after a mid air collission of two aircraft, one which had just taken off after receiving clearance and one apparently staying into the flight path of the departing plane.
The incident today at Wilson Airport led to the passengers having to disembark the aircraft, using the exit door and where then taken by a bus to the arrival terminal.
The current rainy weather in Nairobi had left the grass sections next to taxi- and runways watersoaked and too soft for an aircraft to safely maneuver.
As a result it took a considerable period of time to tow the aircraft back to the tarmac.
An investigation into the cause of the runway excursion is underway.
