On 19 July 2003, a South African registered aircraft, carrying 12 passengers and two crew, crashed into Mount Kenya at Point Lenana; nobody survived.Charter aircraft crashes into Kenya's Mount Kenya., Airline Industry Information, 21 July 2003Rescue teams resume efforts to recover bodies of those killed in charter aircraft crash, Airline Industry Information, 23 July 2003 This was not the first aircraft lost on the mountain; there is also the wreckage of at least one helicopter that crashed before 1972.
