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Light aircraft crash lands in Malindi after wheel ripped off mid air

A trainee pilot has been evacuated and treated for trauma after a two hour flying ordeal above Malindi skies that began when their light aeroplane lost one of its wheels and crash landed at the Malindi airstrip.

The Cessna aircraft belonging to the Kenya School of Flying branch in Malindi landed without the wheel as ambulances and fire brigade teams rushed to the scene in the mid Monday incident.

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