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On 5 March 2024, Safarilink Aviation Flight 053, a Dash 8-315 registered as 5Y-SLK on a scheduled flight to Ukunda Airport, collided on climbout from Wilson Airport with a Cessna 172M on a local training flight.
The first aircraft involved in the collision was a De Havilland Canada Dash 8-315, manufacturer serial number 574, and registered as 5Y-SLK. The aircraft was manufactured by Bombardier Aviation on 28 September 2001 and in its 22 years of service, it had accumulated around 32,000 flight hours in around 35,000 cycles, [a] and was equipped with two Pratt & Whitney Canada PW123E engines.
A Dash 8-300 operating as Safarilink Aviation Flight 53 from Wilson Airport, Nairobi to Diani near Mombasa was involved in a mid-air collision with a Cessna 172 operated by a local flying school. The Dash returned to Wilson and landed safely with no injuries among the 39 passengers and 5 crew.
The opening of the Seychelles International Airport took place on 20 March 1972 by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II.Wilkenair of Kenya had, however, already started a ferry service between Mombasa and Mahé via Diego Suarez in Madagascar and Astove Island (Seychelles) using a twin engine Piper Navajo the previous year. [7]
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The airport was established as Nairobi West Aerodrome in 1929 by Florence Kerr Wilson, a wealthy widow.Built at a cost of £50,000 (£3.2 million in 2020), Mrs Wilson hired pilot Tom Campbell Black to run the airport.