African Medical and Research Foundation (AMREF) Fl Cessna 560 XL accident
Cessna 560 XL · Accident: fire/smoke (non-impact)
From Nairobi Wilson Airport (HKNW) to Egal International Airport (HCMH)
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA25WA234
- Event typeAccident: someone killed or seriously injured, or the aircraft substantially damaged (NTSB definition). Incident: an occurrence that affected or could have affected safety, short of that. Glossary
- Accident
- InvestigationHow far the investigation had got when the record was published: preliminary, ongoing, final or completed. Unknown where the source does not say. Glossary
- Preliminary · AAID interim report
- API-reported fatalities
- 6 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 2
- OperationWhat kind of flying it was, grouped by the rules it flew under: airline (US Part 121), air taxi and commuter (Part 135), general aviation (Part 91 and similar), military or government. Glossary
- Charter & commuter
- WeatherVisual meteorological conditions (VMC): good enough to fly by looking outside. Instrument conditions (IMC): cloud or low visibility, flying by instruments. Glossary
- Not recorded
Cessna 560 XL
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 560
- Category
- Airplane
- RegistrationThe aircraft's tail number, such as N12345 or G-ABCD. Registrations are reissued, so the same one years apart can be a different aircraft. Glossary
- 5Y-FDN
- Onboard fatalities
- Unknown
- Route
- From Nairobi Wilson Airport (HKNW), Wilson Airport, NairobiTo Egal International Airport (HCMH), Egal International Airport, Hargeisa, Somaliland
- Aircraft age
- Not recorded
- Flight rulesThe regulations the flight operated under: in the US, Part 91 (general aviation), Part 121 (airlines), Part 135 (air taxi and commuter) and others; for flights abroad, the NTSB's coarser commercial or non-commercial code. Glossary
- Non-U.S., Commercial
- Phase of flightThe stage of the flight when things started to go wrong: standing, taxi, takeoff, initial climb, en route, maneuvering, approach or landing. Glossary
- Unknown
- Defining eventThe single coded event the NTSB judges best describes what happened (records from 2008 on). Older records name the first occurrence in the sequence instead. Glossary
- Fire/smoke (non-impact)
- DamageDestroyed: beyond practical repair. Substantial: damage that affects the structure, performance or handling and normally needs major repair. Minor: less than that. Glossary
- Destroyed
Cause areas
No findings designated as a cause are recorded in the NTSB data yet.
Documented · Crash site as stated in the Aircraft Accident Investigation Department (AAID), State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development, Ministry of Roads and Transport, Kenya interim report. No uncertainty radius is established.
NTSB narrative
Investigated by the authorities of Kenya; the NTSB took part and publishes no narrative.
Sources
NTSB record GAA25WA234
- Event ID
- 20250808200739
- Case number
- GAA25WA234
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Source notes (5)
- Unreviewed is an editorial label, not an investigation status. API-sourced is not report-checked or human-reviewed. Explicit event totals are used without summing aircraft injury tables; onboard allocation is withheld. Unknown values remain unknown. The operation category is mapped from the NTSB-reported FAR part and has not been reviewed.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.
- The date is the UTC date the NTSB stores; the local time zone is not recorded, so the local date may differ by a day.
- API snapshot SHA-256: f79567eb54875515534a6a992c2288db3391c9801e5597eb505f1d3aee5b8c5b; retrieved 2026-09-13T18:00:06.749Z.
- Checked against the Aircraft Accident Investigation Department (AAID), State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development, Ministry of Roads and Transport, Kenya interim report on 2026-09-18. The report states the same date, ground fatalities, fatalities and operator. Taken from the report: place, crash-site coordinates, departure, destination and damage. Shown unchanged where the report gives another value or wording: registration (shown 5Y-FDN; report 5Y-FDM). Not checked: flight number, aircraft type and type of operation.