{"id":123226,"date":"2025-10-16T15:09:50","date_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/index.php\/2025\/10\/16\/photo-story-kq-crew-that-flew-raila-odinga-home\/"},"modified":"2025-10-16T15:09:50","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T15:09:50","slug":"photo-story-kq-crew-that-flew-raila-odinga-home","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/photo-story-kq-crew-that-flew-raila-odinga-home\/","title":{"rendered":"PHOTO STORY: KQ crew that flew Raila Odinga home"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2025\/10\/image-6.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2025\/10\/image-7.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 16 \u2014 Kenya Airways has paid tribute to the crew that safely flew back the body of the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga from Mumbai, India, following his death last week.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In a message shared alongside photos of the solemn homecoming, the airline expressed gratitude to the flight team for their professionalism and composure during the assignment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe extend our heartfelt appreciation to our crew who safely flew back the late Rt. Hon. Raila Odinga and the accompanying delegation from Mumbai,\u201d the statement read.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYour professionalism, composure, and dedication in this solemn duty embody the true spirit of service and care that defines us. As #ThePrideofAfrica, we remain honoured to have played a part in bringing one of Kenya\u2019s great sons home.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/2025\/10\/kq203-changes-call-sign-to-rao001-as-raila-odingas-body-enters-kenyan-airspace\/\">KQ203 changes call sign to RAO001 as Raila Odinga\u2019s body enters Kenyan airspace \u00bb Capital News (capitalfm.co.ke)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.capitalfm.co.ke\/news\/files\/2025\/10\/image-17.png\"><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NAIROBI, Kenya, Oct 16 \u2014 Kenya Airways has paid tribute to the crew that safely flew back the body of the late former Prime Minister Raila Odinga from Mumbai, India, following his death last week. In a message shared alongside photos of the solemn homecoming, the airline expressed gratitude to the flight team for their [&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-123226","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\/123226","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=123226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123226\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chezaspin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}