FlySax plane with 10 occupants which crashed on Tuesday evening on Aberdares ranges was supposed to carry 9 passengers and 2 crew members.
But as a Kitale farmer, Peter Wekhomba would have it, his death was not wrapped around FlySax 5Y-CAC.
At around 4pm, Cesna C208 plane touched down on a Kitale airstrip after Peter and other 8 passengers had waited for more than a half an hour.
Peter’s natural instinct sensed danger when he looked at the passengers who were alighting from the plane. From his oral investigations, the plane occupants were frightened, shaken and tensed from their journey.
I was the first passenger. But something told me not to board. I was already on the staircase when I decided against flying,” Wekhomba told a journalist from The Star.
He knew the trip will be turbulent based on the foggy, windy and heavy rainy weather.
“I resisted their attempts to convince me to proceed with the journey. They gave up and asked a police officer to help me carry away my luggage,” he recalled as the flight crew tried to convince him board the plane.
An umbrella he had been carrying had been broken by strong winds around the airstrip.
Peter did not keep his fears inside his heart, he moved on to ask two women who had traveled from Nairobi. They advised him not to travel.
And true to his fears, the plane did not make it to its destination. It crashed killing all its 10 occupants on board.
The plane was expected to return to Nairobi by 5.20PM after spending a half and hour from Trans-Nzoia county. But its destination time was the time it lost its signal from the radar.
His family was not frightened as he had infromed them that he had cancelled his trip.
