Nairobi - Nairobi

On March 22, 1954 at 12:00 AM, Nairobi - Nairobi experienced a crash involving Avro 694 Lincoln, operated by Royal Air Force - RAF, with the event recorded near Mt Kinangop Central.

The flight was categorized as training and the reported phase was flight at a mountains crash site.

5 people were known to be on board, 5 fatalities were recorded, 0 survivors were identified or estimated. This corresponds to an estimated fatality rate of 100.0%.

Crew on board: 5, crew fatalities: 5, passengers on board: 0, passenger fatalities: 0, other fatalities: 0.

The listed crash cause is human factor. Following an uneventful night training flight, the crew was returning to his base at Nairobi-Eastleigh Airport when the airplane crashed on Mt Kinangop (3,906 meters high) located 75 km north of Nairobi. The aircraft disintegrated on impact and all five crew members were killed. At the time of the accident, the crew was flying under IFR rules but below the minimum safe altitude for unknown reason. Crew (61st Squadron): F/Lt Michael Weight, pilot, M/Eng William Joseph Beesley, flight engineer, F/O Michael William Humphrey Owen, navigator, F/O Robert Joseph Robinson, navigator, Sgt James Keith Atkinson, air gunner.

Aircraft reference details include registration RE297.

Geospatial coordinates for this crash are approximately -0.5778°, 36.6302°.