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16 seconds to disaster: How two aircraft collided over city park

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A Safarilink plane at Wilson Airport, Nairobi. [David Gichuru, Standard]

A promising day for a student pilot and his instructor on March 5 ended in tragedy when their Cessna collided midair with a Dash 8 over Nairobi National Park, two kilometres from Wilson Airport, resulting in their deaths.

Their final transmission to Wilson Tower was 'looking out' before vanishing from radar.

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