Two foreigners seeking medical evacuation are among those killed in the crash on Africa\u2019s highest mountain.<\/p>\n
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Five people have been killed in a helicopter crash on Africa\u2019s highest mountain, Mount Kilimanjaro, in Tanzania, authorities say.<\/p>\n
The accident took place on Wednesday evening on one of the most popular tourist climbing routes in what police said was a rescue mission to pick up patients on the mountain.<\/p>\n
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Two foreigners, who police said had been picked up in a medical evacuation, were among those killed.<\/p>\n
A local doctor, a tour guide and the pilot were also killed in the crash.<\/p>\n
Tanzanian media reports said Czech nationals as well as a Zimbabwean were on board the helicopter.<\/p>\n
The accident happened between the mountain\u2019s Barafu Camp and Kibo Summit at an altitude of more than 4,000 metres (13,100ft).<\/p>\n
Kilimanjaro Regional Police Commander Simon Maigwa told journalists the aircraft belonged to the Kilimanjaro Aviation company, which has yet to comment on the accident.<\/p>\n
The Tanzania Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday said investigations had started in line with international safety regulations \u201cto determine the circumstances and probable cause\u201d of the accident.<\/p>\n
Aircraft accidents on Mount Kilimanjaro are rare. The last recorded incident was in November 2008 when four people died.<\/p>\n
Kilimanjaro\u00a0draws thousands of tourists every year. While the ascent is not technically difficult, altitude sickness is a problem for many climbers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two foreigners seeking medical evacuation are among those killed in the crash on Africa\u2019s highest mountain. Published On…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5502,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[63,96,152,1704],"class_list":{"0":"post-5501","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tanzania","8":"tag-africa","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-tanzania","11":"tag-transport"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5501"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5501\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/africa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}