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Busia air crash: Report reveals officials boarded a death trap

The 24-seater Gulfstream executive jet crashed immediately after take-off on January 24, 2003. [File, Standard]

A team appointed to investigate the January 24, 2003, Busia aircraft crash made horrid revelations on the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority (KCAA).

The report, which was never made public, indicates that the senior government officials who had gone for Vice President Moody Awori's homecoming after the 2002 General Election victory, had boarded a death trap.

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