(Posted 18th January 2024)
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A Kenyan registered Fokker 50 aircraft, reportedly some 34 years old and under charter from the UN World Food Programme for emergency food relief supply, crashed some two yours ago at the Ceelbarde airstrip in Somalia.
Registered as 5Y-JWG, MSN 20191, were at least two of the four occupants seriously injured while one of the pilots did not survive the crash. Nairobi based sources say the aircraft came in low and hit the building attempting to land while other sources said that the aircraft had touched down and then swerved off the runway and hit a nearby building.
No doubt will the unfolding air accident investigation, in which staff from the Kenyan air accident investigations department are participating, find out the course of this fatal accident.
From aircraft records seen was the plane converted into a cargo aircraft in 2008, then registered as PH-KVC and initially operating for KLM Cityhopper. Since September 2017 was the aircraft owned and operated by Jetways Airlines in Kenya.
