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Plane May Have Crashed Into Mt. Kenya
Aired July 20, 2003 - 08:03 ET
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THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: Want to turn now to a developing story coming into us out of East Africa. A plane that may have been carrying up to a dozen tourists has crashed into Mount Kenya. We have on the phone now Gladys Julogay (ph), she joins us now from Nairobi to explain exactly what more we know from there.
Gladys, good morning.
GLADYS JULOGAY, NAIROBI, KENYA: Good morning. Police are saying that a plane with 14 people on board crashed at Peaklanana (ph), which at Mount Kenya at about 6:00 p.m. yesterday. And out of the 14, eight people by U.S. citizens. And we also understand it was chartered plane that came from Mozambique yesterday's London's Wilson Airport here in Kenya, and was en route to Somburo (ph) when the crash happened.
Police have sent rescue teams on the ground and they say the cold weather is one of the challenges that they are having to deal with. Seeing that it is, of course, a cold season and there's a lot of cloud cover and mist. And so, operations are still going on, but investigations again, continue going on as we speak.
ROBERTS: And Gladys for those people that may not be aware, Mount Kenya is a huge mountain. We understand this crash scene is about 16,000 feet up?
JULOGAY: Yes. That's right. And again, it is the coldest season in Kenya and so again, other than the ice that is very slippery to walk in and try and get the bodies pulled out, the police have sent the helicopters there from yesterday evening. Again they say they sent out another helicopter on the ground today morning and trying to rescue.
We understand that there are no survivors on the ground, so right now it is basically getting the bodies out of the mountainous region.
ROBERTS: And Gladys, real quickly before we let you go, one more time. It's 14 people and do we know all the nationalities?
JULOGAY: We understand that eight out of the 14 were U.S. citizens. And they're still, again, trying to rescue them from the ground.
ROBERTS: All right. Gladys Julogay (ph) in Nairobi this morning telling us more about a situation that we're following out of East Africa, learning yesterday at 6:00 p.m. in the evening time, a small plane carrying about 14 people crashed into Mount Kenya. According to Gladys that we understand that eight U.S. citizens were on board. We'll continue to follow this, bring you more details here on CNN.
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Aired July 20, 2003 - 08:03 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THOMAS ROBERTS, CNN ANCHOR: Want to turn now to a developing story coming into us out of East Africa. A plane that may have been carrying up to a dozen tourists has crashed into Mount Kenya. We have on the phone now Gladys Julogay (ph), she joins us now from Nairobi to explain exactly what more we know from there.
Gladys, good morning.
GLADYS JULOGAY, NAIROBI, KENYA: Good morning. Police are saying that a plane with 14 people on board crashed at Peaklanana (ph), which at Mount Kenya at about 6:00 p.m. yesterday. And out of the 14, eight people by U.S. citizens. And we also understand it was chartered plane that came from Mozambique yesterday's London's Wilson Airport here in Kenya, and was en route to Somburo (ph) when the crash happened.
Police have sent rescue teams on the ground and they say the cold weather is one of the challenges that they are having to deal with. Seeing that it is, of course, a cold season and there's a lot of cloud cover and mist. And so, operations are still going on, but investigations again, continue going on as we speak.
ROBERTS: And Gladys for those people that may not be aware, Mount Kenya is a huge mountain. We understand this crash scene is about 16,000 feet up?
JULOGAY: Yes. That's right. And again, it is the coldest season in Kenya and so again, other than the ice that is very slippery to walk in and try and get the bodies pulled out, the police have sent the helicopters there from yesterday evening. Again they say they sent out another helicopter on the ground today morning and trying to rescue.
We understand that there are no survivors on the ground, so right now it is basically getting the bodies out of the mountainous region.
ROBERTS: And Gladys, real quickly before we let you go, one more time. It's 14 people and do we know all the nationalities?
JULOGAY: We understand that eight out of the 14 were U.S. citizens. And they're still, again, trying to rescue them from the ground.
ROBERTS: All right. Gladys Julogay (ph) in Nairobi this morning telling us more about a situation that we're following out of East Africa, learning yesterday at 6:00 p.m. in the evening time, a small plane carrying about 14 people crashed into Mount Kenya. According to Gladys that we understand that eight U.S. citizens were on board. We'll continue to follow this, bring you more details here on CNN.
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