The office of the Director of Public Prosecution(DPP) will be furnished with a preliminary report of the plane crash once ready for the purposes of opening an inquiry. Investigations at the site of the accident at the peak of the Aberdare Ranges in Kinangop, Nynadarua County came to a close on Monday night.
Security experts and specialists in the plane crash had spent the whole day combing the area for any clues that will help to decipher what exactly made the Fly Sax 5Y-CAC plane come down. Area Deputy County Commissioner Daniel Nyameti however insisted that investigations are still open: “We need to exactly find out what really went wrong.”
Various exhibits were recovered including personal effects of passengers which will also be analysed for clues arguing that they do not want to leave anything to chance.
It is not clear how soon the report will be ready, but according to a global database on plane crash incidents, initial reports should take days to few weeks. Bomb experts, Kenya Police, Kenya Forest Service, forensic specialist, government chemist and pathologist took part in the collection of evidence.
Though the plane is said not to have a black box, every aircraft needs to at least have a flight data recorder-which makes part of the black box- that should facilitate investigations in case of an accident.
The sole purpose of the investigations as per the set international guidelines, ASN explains, is not to finally point fingers on who is to blame.
The Cessna 208 model plane crashed at 5pm on Tuesday last week after encountering bad weather with a myriad of claims that the pilot may have not been aware of the area’s terrain and that she was misled by the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport(JKIA) tower.
Speculation has however been raised on the effectiveness of the plane warning signals like the weather radar which should have alerted the pilot of the fog while an updated Global Positioning System(GPS) would have alerted her of the peak of the rocky Elephant Hill she was approaching.