Military plane crashes in northern Kenya, killing 6 politicians, 7 others

SHOTLIST

Wilson Airport, Nairobi
1. Police cordoning off area at Wilson Airport
2. Members of parliament
3. Medics receiving survivors from plane
4. Survivors being lifted on stretchers from plane
5. Dead being taken out of plane
6. SOUNDBITE: Raphael Tuju, Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister:
"When you come from a plane crash, you should realise it is a very difficult position to be in so we don''t think that they are very well that''s why they have been rushed here. I think the doctors should be able to tell us the position. But one of the survivors died on the plane, died on this flight, one of the survivors. No we cannot say which one because the next of kin has to be told."
7. Wide shot, plane

Nairobi Hospital
8. Medical personnel preparing stretcher outside hospital
9. Nairobi hospital sign
10. Ambulance driving into hospital grounds
11. Injured people being taken out of ambulance
12. Ambulance driving into hospital grounds
13. Injured being given medical attention in ambulance
14. Injured taken out of ambulance into hospital by medical personnel

STORYLINE:

A Kenyan cabinet minister, two assistant ministers and four other lawmakers, along with at least seven other people, were killed on Monday when their plane crashed while attempting to land.

The military plane, which was transporting the government officials to a peace conference in northern Kenya crashed into a hill near the town of Marsabit, 450 kilometres (280 miles) northeast of Nairobi.

The political leaders were due to attend a meeting meant to ease tribal tensions along the Ethiopian border, according to a parliamentary spokesman.

The lawmakers on the plane were Minister for Youth Affairs Mohammed Kuti; the assistant minister for internal security, Mirugi Kariuki; the assistant minister for regional development authorities, Titus Ngoyoni; the deputy leader of the opposition KANU party, Bonaya Godana; Abdi Sasura; and Dr. Guracha Galgallo Boru.

Also on board was a Kenyan member of the East African Legislative Assembly, Abdullahi Adan, a retired army general who served under former President Daniel arap Moi, Kaparo added.

Four people were pulled from the burning wreckage alive, witnesses said.

A police statement identified the survivors as Patrick Onsare, provincial commissioner for Eastern Province, Peter Kingolane the commissioner for Moyale district; the pilot of the plane, and one crew member.

But when an air ambulance arrived in Nairobi''s Wilson Airport, journalists at the scene could see that one of the survivors had died during the flight.

The Kenyan Foreign Affairs Minister, Raphael Tuju said, "one of the survivors died on the plane, died on this flight, one of the survivors... we cannot say which one because the next of kin has to be told."

Injured passengers were taken to the Nairobi Hospital where they were given medical attention.

Kaparo said he would adjourn parliament on Tuesday until all of the lawmakers were buried.

In January 2003, a plane carrying four cabinet ministers and other people, crashed in western Kenya killing one minister and the two pilots.

A public enquiry into the crash recommended that in the future no more than three cabinet ministers or senior government officials should travel on the same flight for security reasons.

The report also noted that many airstrips in the country were poorly maintained and the government did not allocate enough money for their repair and maintenance.


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