The helicopter, owned and operated by Flex Air Charters, crashed at around 7:30 am on Saturday, October 21 barely half-an-hour after take-off from Jarika County Lodge in Nakuru.
The National Disaster Management Unit (NDMU) activated a national police chopper to support the Nakuru County Disaster team on a search and rescue operation.
The rescue team had to mobilize speed boats from Lake Naivasha, 93 KM away. The boats arrived four hours later.
The Kenya Red Cross Society (KRCS) team arrived early at the scene but could not start any activity as they lacked the necessary equipment for the mission.
Nearly eight hours into the operation, the wreckage of the helicopter was sighted, although the Kenya Civil Aviation Authority confirmed there was no survivor.
The rescue team reported that the wreckage appeared intact, but they were unable to access it due to its location and presence of hippos around it.
By evening, neither the victims nor the wreckage had been pulled out of the saline waters, with the rescue teams having to call off the operation due to poor visibility as a result of darkness.
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