{"id":256380,"date":"2025-10-28T10:14:24","date_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:14:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256380\/"},"modified":"2025-10-28T10:14:24","modified_gmt":"2025-10-28T10:14:24","slug":"tourist-plane-crashes-all-on-board-feared-dead","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/256380\/","title":{"rendered":"Tourist Plane Crashes, All on Board Feared Dead"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">A plane crashed in Kenya\u2019s coastal region of Kwale early Tuesday while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve. <\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">All 12 people on board were feared dead, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">The plane crashed minutes after takeoff in a hilly and forested area about 25 miles from Diani airstrip. Rescuers found a charred wreckage at the scene, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Local reports stated the plane was a 5Y-CCA aircraft and that a family of eight was on board.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">Maasai Mara National Reserve is a popular tourist destination and features the annual wildebeest migration from the Serengeti in Tanzania.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">&#8220;Government agencies are already on site to establish the cause of the accident and its impact,&#8221;\u00a0the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Paragraph_blockParagraph__I2kr4\">This is a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/topic\/breaking-news\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">breaking news<\/a> story. Updates to follow.<\/p>\n<p><img id=\"10473312\" alt=\"This is a breaking news article from Newsweek.\" caption=\"This is a breaking news article from Newsweek.\" credit=\"\" sourcealt=\"\" sources=\"[]\" fetchpriority=\"auto\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1200\" height=\"800\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent;aspect-ratio:inherit;object-fit:cover\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2450666-breaking-news.png\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A plane crashed in Kenya\u2019s coastal region of Kwale early Tuesday while en route to Maasai Mara National&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":256381,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[4,450,451,26679,3,22204,3778,452,453],"class_list":{"0":"post-256380","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-breaking-news","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-breakingnews","10":"tag-headlines","11":"tag-kenya","12":"tag-news","13":"tag-plane","14":"tag-plane-crash","15":"tag-top-stories","16":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256380","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=256380"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/256380\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/256381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=256380"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=256380"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=256380"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}