{"id":225801,"date":"2026-03-02T13:14:48","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:14:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/kenya-civil-aviation-authority-initiates-probe-into-fatal-mosop-helicopter-crash\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T13:14:48","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T11:14:48","slug":"kenya-civil-aviation-authority-initiates-probe-into-fatal-mosop-helicopter-crash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/kenya-civil-aviation-authority-initiates-probe-into-fatal-mosop-helicopter-crash\/","title":{"rendered":"Kenya Civil Aviation Authority Initiates Probe Into Fatal Mosop Helicopter Crash"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">Nairobi \u2014 <em>The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has launched investigations into a fatal helicopter crash in Mosop, Nandi County, involving an AS350 aircraft that was en route from Endebes to Mosoriot.<\/em><\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">In a statement issued Saturday evening, KCAA confirmed that the accident occurred at approximately 4:30 p.m. at Kabiet Sub-location in the Mosop area of Nandi Hills.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"15\">The aircraft, registration 5Y-DSB, had six people on board at the time of the crash.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">&#8220;The accident is reported to have been&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202603020107.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Lesotho\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/lesotho\/\">Lesotho<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nairobi \u2014 The Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA) has launched investigations into a fatal helicopter crash in Mosop, Nandi County, involving an AS350 aircraft that was en route from Endebes to Mosoriot. In a statement issued Saturday evening, KCAA confirmed that the accident occurred at approximately 4:30 p.m. at Kabiet Sub-location in the Mosop area [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":225802,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680875:21fcf5564d41bf54c4909696f2d1e0b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1406],"tags":[258,256,9367,8763,8227,7750,13059,11103,6848,4688,1407,10489,257,5805,254],"class_list":["post-225801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lesotho","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-authority","tag-aviation","tag-civil","tag-crash","tag-fatal","tag-helicopter","tag-initiates","tag-kenya","tag-lesotho-news","tag-mosop","tag-news","tag-probe","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/download\/pic\/main\/main\/csiid\/00680875:21fcf5564d41bf54c4909696f2d1e0b2:arc614x376:w1200.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225801\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225802"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}