Kenyans on twitter have emitted mixed reactions after a plane operated by Silverstone Air crashed at the Nairobi game park near Wilson Airport shortly after take-off on Friday with an unknown number of passengers.
The plane was headed to Lamu via Mombasa.
A communications representative from Silverstone said that one of the plane’s engines failed, resulting in the accident.
The Kenya Red Cross has tweeted, saying the plane “developed a technical glitch while taking off”.
But Kenyans are not buying any of the explanations.
A renown blogger Lord Abraham Mutai now says that flying silverstone is like agreeing to commit suicide.
He says the company is openly mismanaged with the most poorly maintained fleet
Last year, another renown blogger Robert Alai put the Air company on spot over its operations. The blogger had intimated that the mess on Silverstone air would soon cost lives.
In the same last year, there was a scare at Wilson Airport after one of the engines of the Silverstone Air flight from Diani failed after take off.
According to passengers on the flight from Ukunda, the plane developed mechanical problems immediately after take off and the passengers were told that one of the engines had failed so they were told to prepare for any eventualities.
Alai has once again revisited his last years’s tweet which had put Silverstone under harsh criticism.
Alai had said that no matter how many times they advertise, Skyward and Silverstone were a complete risk.
He argued that Kenya shouldn’t be having planes which are used for cargo at night and converted to accommodate passengers during the day.
One of their plane had crashed in Utawala because of overloading.
“October 2018 tweet on Skyward and Silverstone. Exactly one year later, it happened. Apart from the risk to passengers on board, the smuggling of contraband into the country through Wilson is crazy!!! One day they will smuggle worse things,” reads Alai’s tweet.
