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Detectives in Somalia to probe plane crash

Somalia plane crash

What you need to know:

  • After the Somalia crash, the pilot, Captain Farah Ahmed, and First Officer, Shukri Farah, both Kenyans, were flown back to Nairobi.
  • The incident came two months after another Kenyan plane was shot down as it approached an airstrip in Bardale.

Air crash investigators have flown to Somalia to probe an accident involving a Kenyan plane.

“We have received a notification from the Somalia government to assist with the investigations. Our team will visit the site and make a report,” Mr Martyn Lunani, the director and chief investigator of accidents at the Aircraft Accident Investigation Department, told the Nation on Thursday.