Four Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash

By John Gage

Published March 4, 2019 3:49pm ET

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Four Americans killed in Kenya helicopter crash — The shadow of a helicopter carrying park officials and media is cast on an area of forest that was burned to the ground by forest fires on the slopes of Mount Kenya, the second-highest peak in Africa at 5,199 meters (17,057 feet), in Kenya Tuesday, March 20, 2012. Fires that have been raging across Mount Kenya may have been set by poachers trying to create a diversion from their illegal attacks on animals, a wildlife official said Tuesday. | (Ben Curtis/AP)

Four Americans and a local pilot were killed in a helicopter crash Sunday night in Central Island National Park in Lake Turkana in Kenya shortly after takeoff.

“A rescue team was dispatched immediately and they arrived at the Central Island at around 11:20 p.m. and located the wreckage at 3:20 a.m. with no survivors,” said Gilbert M. Kibe, director general of the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority.

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