Two Embraer’s ERJ-190 of Kenya Airways collided today in front of the airline´s hangar at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in the capital Nairobi. No injuries were reported.
The aircraft with the registration 5Y-FFF and 5Y-KYR were up for C4 Check which is a major maintenance of the engine. After the maintenance, the planes have to undergo Engine Run which is throttling the engine to the take off level while brakes and chokes are on.
Kenya Airways doesn’t have an engine run bay so the maintenance team use an open space right in front of the hangar. So, looks like the aircraft 5Y-KYR was doing this test when lost the brakes and hit the 5Y-FFF causing several damages.
Kenya Civil Aviation Authority Director-General Gilbert Kibe said that airport safety officials are investigating the incident:
“We will find out what went wrong and we will mitigate to ensure it does not happen again”
and confirm that the planes collided while undergoing maintenance.
He added that the disruption of services at JKIA would be inevitable:
“Some flights will likely be cancelled. Every aeroplane has something that it’s doing every day. If two are not available, that will really mess up the schedule”,
“We hope that the flights will come back to normal as soon as possible”
All Images by: David Maina Ndung’u
These has nothing to do with pilots @syed take your idiotic comments away ‘ it was a failed braking system at the hangar ; pilots do not work at the hangar !
This was involving 2 aircraft that were not flying passengers. Please correct your english. Do not comment if you do not know the full story.
Hello,
In my article, I don’t make any reference to passengers. I say “Two Embraer’s ERJ-190 of Kenya Airways collided today in front of the airline´s hangar. (…) The aircraft with the registration 5Y-FFF and 5Y-KYR were up for C4 Check which is a major maintenance of the engine. (…) looks like the aircraft 5Y-KYR was doing this test when lost the brakes and hit the 5Y-FFF causing several damages.” This part “No injuries were reported” only refers to the maintenance workers of Kenya Airways.
sorry for what happened and no one injured. A lesson to have a safe area dedicated for ground running and more precautions.
What a shame.just imagine it was going for parking near the hanger and got accident.we should fear flying with kenyan airways that what kind of pilots they have.I wonder! Or anyone can fly or park the plan!!? Seriously what kind of aviation is that.
Such a shame you utter words that lack wisdom. FYI, every pilot is a human being prone for errors. It could have been qantas, air zimbabwe, jet airways, latam, delta airlines, emirates etc….any pilot from these airlines COULD have experienced the same…stop erroding peoples’ character, hardwork and expertise on your baseless rants. Thank the heavens nobody got injured.. As a Kenyan, it is my heritage you are diminishing and mocking. We have the BEST pilots we could have just as much all other worldwide airlines have. WE have the best of the very best in the Aviation industry and irregardless of your thoughts and words, Kenya Airways still is and will always be The Pride of Africa….and Kenya.