PLANE HORROR Plane crash in Kenya kills at least 6 after charity’s medical jet smashes into neighbourhood and erupts in fireball
The plane took of from Nairobi's Wilson airport on Thursday afternoon.
"We are now looking for bodies in the wreckage.
"So far we have recovered four bodies," a Red Cross worker at the scene said.
"We have lost four people, including the pilot... it was all fatal," said Kiambu County commissioner Henry Wafula.
"The house that it landed on... two people again also died," he said, and two people on the ground were "seriously injured".
Pictures from the scene showed rescuers rushing to the scene of the tragedy.
"The plane started burning while in the air," resident Tasha Wanjira said.
Another resident, Irene Wangui, said the "plane passed by our building shaking it".
Amref Flying Doctors CEO Stephen Gitau said one of their plaes had been "involved in a fatal accident today".
They did not provide any further details.
The organisation has said it is "cooperating fully with relevant aviation authorities and emergency response teams to establish the facts surrounding the situation."
Nairobi based Amref was founded in 1957 as the Flying Doctors of East Africa.
The cause of the crash remains unknown.



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