{"id":119405,"date":"2025-08-07T20:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/07\/death-toll-in-mwihoko-plane-crash-rises-to-6\/"},"modified":"2025-08-07T20:05:02","modified_gmt":"2025-08-07T20:05:02","slug":"death-toll-in-mwihoko-plane-crash-rises-to-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/death-toll-in-mwihoko-plane-crash-rises-to-6\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll in Mwihoko plane crash rises to 6"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 7 \u2013 The government says all six people have not  after a light aircraft belonging to AMREF Flying Doctors crashed this afternoon in Mwihoko area, near Githurai 45, Nairobi.<\/p>\n<p>Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula confirmed that the ill-fated aircraft killed six people; 2 doctors, 2 nurses and 2 civilians<\/p>\n<p>Kenya Civil Aviation Authority says lost both radio and radar contact with Air Traffic Control at 2:17pm approximately 3 minutes after takeoff.<\/p>\n<p>The Cessna Citation XLS took off from Wilson en route to Hargeisa, Somalia, before it crashed on a residential building in Mwihoko.<\/p>\n<p>A multi-agency team comprising the Kenya Defence Forces and the National Police Service was swiftly deployed to the scene and is currently conducting rescue and recovery operations.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya Aug 7 \u2013 The government says all six people have not after a light aircraft belonging to AMREF Flying Doctors crashed this afternoon in Mwihoko area, near Githurai 45, Nairobi. Kiambu County Commissioner Henry Wafula confirmed that the ill-fated aircraft killed six people; 2 doctors, 2 nurses and 2 civilians Kenya Civil Aviation [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-119405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","entry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=119405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/119405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=119405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=119405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=119405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}