{"id":105921,"date":"2025-10-28T22:04:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:04:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105921\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T22:04:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T22:04:08","slug":"plane-crashes-while-flying-tourists-in-kenya-killing-11-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/105921\/","title":{"rendered":"Plane crashes while flying tourists in Kenya, killing 11 people"},"content":{"rendered":"

A plane crash killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya\u2019s coastal region of Kwale overnight while they were en route to the Maasai Mara National Reserve in heavy rain.<\/p>\n

The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said in a statement that eight Hungarian and two German passengers were on board, and the Kenyan pilot was also killed. The plane crashed in a hilly, forested area about 40km from the Diani airstrip, authorities said.<\/p>\n

The airline did not confirm what time the aircraft departed Diani, saying the pilot failed to communicate upon departure and that the airport control tower tried to reach him for 30 minutes before the plane was located.<\/p>\n

\"Kenyan<\/p>\n

Kenyan officials inspect the scene of a plane crash near Diani, Kenya. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

Investigating agencies were looking into the cause of the crash, Kwale County Commissioner Stephen Orinde told the Associated Press. Authorities initially said the crash happened at 5.30am (local time) but the transport minister in a statement gave the time as 8.35am.<\/p>\n

The aircraft burst into flames, leaving charred wreckage, officials said.<\/p>\n

Witnesses told the AP they heard a loud bang and found unrecognisable human remains at the scene.<\/p>\n

Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orb\u00e1n said on social media that the foreign ministry had been in contact with Kenyan authorities.<\/p>\n

\"Kenyan<\/p>\n

Kenyan officials inspect the scene of a plane crash near Diani, Kenya. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat a tragedy!\u201d Orb\u00e1n wrote. \u201cOur sincere condolences to families of the Hungarians who died in the plane crash in Kenya.\u201d<\/p>\n

Hungarian Foreign Minister P\u00e9ter Szijj\u00e1rt\u00f3 said on social media that the Hungarian victims were two families and an acquaintance, with two children among the dead. He said the Hungarian consul in Kenya was on the way to the scene.<\/p>\n

The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority earlier said 12 people were on the Cessna Caravan-type aircraft. It did not give a reason for revising the number to 11.<\/p>\n

The Mombasa Air Safari airline operates 13-passenger Cessnas to many tourist destinations.<\/p>\n

\"Kenyan<\/p>\n

Kenyan officials inspect the scene of a plane crash near Diani, Kenya. (Source: Associated Press)<\/p>\n

The Maasai Mara National Reserve, in western Kenya, is a two-hour direct flight from Diani, a popular town on the Indian Ocean. One of Kenya’s most visited areas, the reserve features an annual wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania.<\/p>\n

A Mombasa Air Safari plane crashed in the Maasai Mara in 2012, with four people killed.<\/p>\n

According to the most recent safety oversight audit for Kenya posted on the International Civil Aviation Organisation site, from 2018, Kenya’s performance in the area of accident investigation fell below the global average.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane crash killed 11 people, mostly foreign tourists, in Kenya\u2019s coastal region of Kwale overnight while they…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":105922,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[190,42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-105921","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-headlines","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-top-news","12":"tag-top-stories","13":"tag-topnews","14":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=105921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/105921\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/105922"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=105921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=105921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=105921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}