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Jordan King

Kenya plane crash: Two killed after jet heading to tourist resort collides with training aircraft

Two people were killed in a collision between a passenger plane heading to a tourist resort and a training aircraft in Kenya.

Forty four people were on the commercial flight, which crashed into the Cessna training aircraft over the capital of Nairobi on Tuesday.

Both the student and his trainer died in the crash, national police said.

Safarilink said its plane was bound for the coastal resort town of Diani and had just taken off when it "experienced a loud bang”. It was able to turn back and land at Nairobi's Wilson Airport and there were no casualties aboard.

Nairobi county police commander Adamson Bugei revealed the sad news about the two deaths.

Photos of the crash site published by Kenyan media showed a small smashed-up plane lying in the tall grass of Nairobi National Park, a large wildlife reserve near Wilson Airport.

The Safarilink plane was a Dash 8, the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said in a statement, adding that investigations were under way.

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