Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
Cessna 208B Grand Caravan · Crashed en route, under investigation
From Ukunda Airstrip (UKA) to Kichwa Tembo Airport, Narok County, Kenya
Event
- NTSB case
- GAA26WA015
- 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
- Unknown · led by another country; figures from NTSB notifications
- Event fatalities
- 11 · all aircraft and ground
- Ground fatalities
- 0
- Occupants
- 11
- Survivors
- 0
- InjuriesFatal: death within 30 days. Serious: over 48 hours in hospital within a week, most broken bones, severe bleeding, nerve or organ damage, or serious burns. Minor: anything less. Glossary
- 0 serious · 0 minor (NTSB)
- 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
- Airline
- 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 208B Grand Caravan
- Flight
- RRV203
- Aircraft type
- Cessna 208
- 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-CCA
- Operator
- Mombasa Air Safari
- Onboard fatalities
- 11
- Route
- From Ukunda Airstrip (UKA)To Kichwa Tembo Airport, Narok County, Kenya
- 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
- Unknown
- 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
- Takeoff
- 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
- Unknown or undetermined
- 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.
Approximate · Estimated position: Kwale, near the place the Wikipedia article names. Not the accident site.
From the Wikipedia article
Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203 was a domestic flight from Ukunda Airport in Kwale County to Kichwa Tembo Airport in Narok County, Kenya. The Cessna 208 Caravan crashed on 28 October 2025 near Kwale, killing all 11 people on board.
Accident
Mombasa Air Safari could not confirm at which time Flight 203 departed Ukunda Airport, since the pilot failed to contact the departure tower. The aircraft crashed at around 8:30 am local time (05:30 UTC) while en route on a two-hour flight to Kichwa Tembo Airport, located near the Serengeti National Park, a popular tourist destination. Air traffic control tried to contact the aircraft for over half an hour, until the crash site was located about 10 kilometers from the town of Kwale, a hilly and forested area where bad weather, including heavy fog, was present at the time of the accident. Photos show the aircraft wreckage scattered near the crash site and on fire. Rescue services managed to reach the crash site after sunrise. On October 29 recovery operations at the crash site continued, also with the use of an excavator.
Investigation and cause
Investigation
The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority sent investigators to the crash site and started an investigation to find out the causes of the crash. Stephen Orinde, Kwale County Commissioner, declared that investigators are focusing on adverse weather as the possible main cause of the accident. Mombasa Air Safari is cooperating with the aviation authorities in the crash investigation. The KCAA stated that a preliminary report about the accident will be released in 30 days.
On December 3, 2025, the Aircraft Accident Investigation Department of Kenya released a preliminary report on the accident. The investigation has so far found out that the aircraft impacted terrain in a nose down attitude and at a high speed, which led to the aircraft debris to be buried to a maximum of 2.2 meters underground. The report also confirmed that harsh weather conditions were present in the area at the time of the crash. The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority is continuing the investigation and will release a final report once it will be finished.
Text from the Wikipedia article “Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203” (revision 1348142752, retrieved 2026-09-18) by its authors, under CC BY-SA 4.0. Extracted as plain text: references, tables, images and some sections are left out. Read the article
Sources
Wikipedia article: Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203
- Revision
- 1348142752 · 2026-04-10 · retrieved 2026-09-18
- Wikidata
- Q136659268
- Licence
- Text CC BY-SA 4.0, by the article's authors; Wikidata CC0; town positions GeoNames (CC BY 4.0)
NTSB record GAA26WA015
- Event ID
- 20251029201934
- Case number
- GAA26WA015
- Dataset
- full-current
- Source SHA-256
- 5cf380f0061817c0331a6b2d8cc7e0ee3a79bea469a1001dc5c10e56f35f5ab3
Where each value comes from
- Record
- Wikipedia article "Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203" (page 81450729, revision 1348142752); merged with NTSB case GAA26WA015 (events / aircraft)
- Date
- Wikipedia infobox: date
- Place and country
- Wikipedia infobox: site
- Map position
- Wikipedia: place the Wikipedia infobox site links (Wikidata coordinates)
- Aircraft, operator and route
- Wikipedia infobox: aircraft type, registration, operator, origin and destination; route airports from the linked airport articles' Wikidata codes (OurAirports); gaps and aircraft details from NTSB record GAA26WA015
- Operation
- airline flight number in the infobox
- Fatalities
- Reviewed (2026-09-19): Kenya AAID Preliminary Report No. 01/10/2025 (5Y-CCA), https://aaid.transport.go.ke/sites/default/files/2025-11/Preliminary%20Report-5Y-CCA.pdf
- Ground fatalities
- Reviewed (2026-09-19): Kenya AAID Preliminary Report No. 01/10/2025 (5Y-CCA), https://aaid.transport.go.ke/sites/default/files/2025-11/Preliminary%20Report-5Y-CCA.pdf
- Summary
- Wikipedia infobox: summary
Source notes (3)
- One occurrence in two sources, merged: the Wikipedia article "Mombasa Air Safari Flight 203" and NTSB case GAA26WA015, matched by the same aircraft registration and date. For this event outside the United States Wikipedia's values are used where the two differ; each value names its source.
- Death toll settled: the NTSB record (GAA26WA015) gives 1 and the Wikipedia article 11; Kenya AAID Preliminary Report No. 01/10/2025 (5Y-CCA) gives 11. AAID: 11 on board (1 pilot + 10 passengers), all fatal, and 0 on the ground. The NTSB's 1 is a notification-record error, likely counting only the pilot. This is a preliminary report, but the count is unlikely to change.
- No bulk values were replaced by the NTSB case API.