Pilots ignored 27 cockpit warnings before 2014 crash

Security personnel at the site where a cargo plane ferrying miraa to Mogadishu in Somalia crashed on July 2, 2014. It caught fire on impact, killing all the four crew members. (File, Standard)

On July 2, 2014, about 4:14am, a Fokker F50 international cargo flight operated by Skyward International crashed shortly after takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.

Now, a new, damning report by the Air Craft Accident Investigation Department (AAID) has concluded that the cause of the fatal accident in which four crew members died was as a result of the crew’s choice to fly a faulty aircraft.