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Trainee pilot forced to keep Kenyan plane airborne after wheel falls off

A light aircraft flies over trees near Malindi International Airport in this picture taken in 2012. A small plane crash-landed at the Malindi International Airport on November 18, 2019 after losing one of its wheel. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  Charles Lwanga

Reporter

Nation Media Group

A light aircraft was forced to fly for two-hours to exhaust its fuel before crash landing at the Malindi International Airport at Kenya's coast on Monday.

Malindi airport manager Mohammed Karama said the Cessna 152 aircraft, belonging to the Kenya School of Flying, lost one of its wheels mid-air and had to fly for two hours to avoid explosion when landing.

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