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Crash of an Avro 694 Lincoln B.2 on Mt Kinangop: 5 killed

Date & Time: Mar 22, 1954
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
RE297
Flight Phase:
Flight Type:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Nairobi - Nairobi
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
5
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
0
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
5
Circumstances:
Following an uneventful night training flight, the crew was returning to his base at Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport when the airplane crashed on Mt Kinangop (3,906 meters high) located 75 km north of Nairobi. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all five crew members were killed. At the time of the accident, the crew was flying under IFR rules but below the minimum safe altitude for unknown reason.
Crew (61st Squadron):
F/Lt Michael Weight, pilot,
M/Eng William Joseph Beesley, flight engineer,
F/O Michael William Humphrey Owen, navigator,
F/O Robert Joseph Robinson, navigator,
Sgt James Keith Atkinson, air gunner.
Probable cause:
Controlled flight into terrain.

Crash of a Lockheed 18-56 LodeStar in Mt Kinangop: 11 killed

Date & Time: Nov 29, 1944 at 1200 LT
Type of aircraft:
Operator:
Registration:
G-AGBW
Flight Phase:
Survivors:
No
Site:
Schedule:
Cairo – Juba – Nairobi – Salisbury
MSN:
2094
YOM:
1941
Country:
Region:
Crew on board:
4
Crew fatalities:
Pax on board:
7
Pax fatalities:
Other fatalities:
Total fatalities:
11
Circumstances:
The crew just started the descent to Nairobi when the twin engine aircraft hit the slope of Mt Kinangop located in the Aberdare mountain range. All 11 occupants were killed. At the time of the accident, the visibility was reduced due to marginal weather conditions. The wreckage was found on January 1st, 1945.