Two-time Olympics 800 meters champion David Rudisha of Kenya has escaped unharmed from a airplane crash as he was getting back from a sporting occasion.
The airplane carrying the 800m world-record holder and 5 different passengers crashed in Kajiado county in southeast Kenya after they attended the annual Maasai Olympics competitors at Kimana Wildlife Sanctuary on Saturday.
“All was effectively near seven or eight minutes into the flight when the engine of the airplane out of the blue went quiet,” the 33-year-old Rudisha, who received gold on the London 2012 and Rio 2016 Video games, advised the Each day Nation.
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“(The pilot) noticed some clear area the place he tried to land the airplane however certainly one of its wings hit a tree because the airplane began to spin earlier than touchdown on the rocky subject.
“All of us got here out alive with some soft-tissue accidents that have been handled earlier than all have been discharged save for one.”
Stephen Ole Marai, the Kenya Masters Athletics chairman and former middle-distance runner, was transferred to a hospital within the capital Nairobi for specialised therapy after struggling rib accidents.
“It was a scary episode the place you maintain your coronary heart in your hand as you pray to God,” Rudisha, who was additionally the 2011 and 2015 world 800m champion, mentioned.
“The pilot did an unimaginable job to maintain the airplane afloat and steady for lengthy.”
– Reuters
