Accident description
Last updated: 19 May 2013
| Status: | Preliminary |
| Date: | 29 MAY 1999 |
| Time: | ca 14:00 |
| Type: | Let L-410UVP-E |
| Operator: | Malindi Air Services |
| Registration: | 5Y-LET |
| C/n / msn: | 912620 |
| First flight: | 1991 |
| Engines: | 2 Walter M-601E |
| Crew: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Passengers: | Fatalities: 0 / Occupants: 0 |
| Total: | Fatalities: 2 / Occupants: 2 |
| Airplane damage: | Written off |
| Airplane fate: | Written off (damaged beyond repair) |
| Location: | Ol Kiombo (Kenya)
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| Phase: | Initial climb (ICL) |
| Nature: | Ferry/positioning |
| Departure airport: | Ol Kiombo, Kenya |
| Mara Shika Airstrip, Kenya |
The aircraft crashed after takeoff from the Maasai Mare game reserve to pick up passengers at another game reserve. Preliminary investigation results show that the flaps might not have been properly set for takeoff
Events:
Sources:
» Scramble 246
» Daily Nation
» ICAO Adrep
» Jetstream
» Scramble 243
» World Airline Accident Summary- Airclaims
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This information is not presented as the Flight Safety Foundation or the Aviation Safety Network’s opinion as to the cause of the accident. It is preliminary and is based on the facts as they are known at this time.
