A safari helicopter has crashed in a remote district of northern Kenya, killing all seven people on board, including five American citizens and the director of Ecuador’s national intelligence service, local police and the U.S. State Department have confirmed. The fatal aviation accident occurred on Wednesday morning in Samburu County.
The charter aircraft was carrying six passengers and one pilot when it went down at about 9:13 a.m. Officials at the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority said the helicopter was flying from the Loisaba Conservancy—a wildlife reserve and safari destination in northern Kenya—toward the Ewaso Nyiro area in Samburu County when the incident occurred.
