Missing Kenya bound Tanzania plane wreckage found, no survivors

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NAIROBI: The Kenya bound Tanzanian Safari Express plane that had gone missing was Monday found crashed at Serengeti National Park about 15 miles to the Kenya-Tanzania border, killing all the three occupants.

All the three occupants were burnt beyond recognition in the aircraft that was headed for Magadi in Kenya from Mwanza, Tanzania when it crashed on Sunday night.

The wreckage of the plane was sighted in the forest on Monday morning and it had apparently burnt, The Standard newspaper reported.

According to Kenya Airports police, the air control officials in the Tanzanian capital, Dar-es-salaam said they lost in touch with it soon after taking off on Sunday evening.

The Fokker 27 MK 500 plane registration 5Y-SXP was to stop at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (JKIA) in Nairobi, Kenya at 8.36pm Sunday but failed to show up as scheduled.

JKIA air control officials also confirmed they lost its touch or it had not crossed to Kenyan airspace by the time it went missing.

Police choppers were Monday morning dispatched to search for the plane.

The aircraft wreckage was found by a joint team of Kenyan and Tanzanian authorities. -Bernama-NNN-Agencies