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Transport CS releases report revealing Lake Nakuru chopper crash pilot was drunk

The late Captain Apollo Malowa who died alongside four others in a plane crash in Nakuru on October 21, 2017. [Courtesy]

The pilot of the helicopter that crashed into Lake Nakuru, killing all its five occupants on October 21, 2017, was drunk.

The revelations were made in the crash report released by Transport Cabinet Secretary James Macharia that was made public today - Wednesday, November 20, 2019 - two years after the crash.

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