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12 Americans die in Kenyan plane crashBy Associated Press© St. Petersburg Times published July 21, 2003 NAIROBI, Kenya - A chartered aircraft carrying three families to a game reserve plowed into Mount Kenya, killing all 12 American tourists and the two South African pilots on board, officials said Sunday. The twin-engine Fairchild turboprop hit Point Lenana, the third-highest peak on Africa's second-highest mountain, as a cloudy sky was beginning to clear just before sunset Saturday, said Bongo Woodley, senior Kenya Wildlife Service warden in charge of Mount Kenya National Park. Rangers based below the crash site found no survivors late Saturday but recovered eight American passports, Woodley said. In Atlanta, the Rev. P.C. Enniss Jr. at Trinity Presbyterian Church said he had spent much of the day with the victims' relatives. He gave their names as: Dr. George Brumley, 68; his wife, Jean, 67; three of their children, George III, Lois and Beth; George III's wife Julia and two children, George IV and Jordan; Lois' husband Richard Murrell and their son, Alex, 11; and Beth's husband William Love and their daughter Sarah, 12. Police and civil aviation officials on Sunday visited the area where the plane slammed into the mountain at 16,000 feet, but could not reach parts of the site because of the weather and terrain. Another attempt to recover the bodies was to be made today. Peter Wakahia, a Kenyan civil aviation official, said the aircraft had been "completely destroyed," and debris was scattered on two rock outcrops on either side of the point of impact. It wasn't clear where the Americans were to go after getting off at Buffalo Springs. In addition to public lodges and tented camps in the highlands area, there are a number of private game ranches in the region.  © 2006 • All Rights Reserved • St. Petersburg Times
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