{"id":406181,"date":"2021-07-21T10:01:17","date_gmt":"2021-07-21T10:01:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/?p=406181"},"modified":"2021-07-21T10:01:17","modified_gmt":"2021-07-21T10:01:17","slug":"skyward-express-plane-crash-lands-in-mandera","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/skyward-express-plane-crash-lands-in-mandera\/","title":{"rendered":"Skyward Express plane crash-lands in Mandera"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Kenya Civil Aviation Authority boss Gilbert Kibe told <em>Nation.Africa\u00a0<\/em>that everyone onboard &#8220;is safe&#8221; after the incident, which happened in Boru Hache near the Kenya-Somalia border.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>It was not immediately clear\u00a0how the light plane, which had at least 40 passengers on board,\u00a0ended up in an airstrip that is under construction in Boru Hache, a town neighbouring Elwak in Mandera South.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>The aviation firm\u00a0normally operates on the\u00a0Nairobi-Elwak-Mandera route,\u00a0but the pilot is reported to have missed the Elwak airstrip.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Mandera County Commissioner Onesmus Kyatha said more details about how the plane missed the Elwak airstrip will be shared after the pilot and the aviation firm.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Skyward Express could not be reached for comment at the time of going to press.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"paragraph-wrapper\">\n<p>Nation.Africa established that majority of the passengers aboard the light plane were on their way to attend a funeral in Borehole 11, Mandera South.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: Nation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kenya Civil Aviation Authority boss Gilbert Kibe told Nation.Africa\u00a0that everyone onboard &#8220;is safe&#8221; after the incident, which happened in Boru Hache near the Kenya-Somalia border. It was not immediately clear\u00a0how the light plane, which had at least 40 passengers on board,\u00a0ended up in an airstrip that is under construction in Boru Hache, a town neighbouring [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":406182,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1,78],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-406181","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-local","8":"category-world"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=406181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":406183,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/406181\/revisions\/406183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/406182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=406181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=406181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sonna.so\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=406181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}