Kenya Airways Flight 431 Crashes: 169 Die at Sea
A midnight descent into darkness. Flight 431 plummeted from 33,000 feet into the Atlantic, breaking apart just minutes after takeoff from Abidjan. Passengers from ten different countries - businessmen, families, students - vanished into cold waters. Investigators would later find mechanical failures and pilot error combined in a fatal cocktail, but in those moments: pure terror. No survivors. Just wreckage and ocean.
January 30, 2000
26 years ago
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