{"id":3501,"date":"2020-09-12T20:26:00","date_gmt":"2020-09-12T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3501"},"modified":"2025-03-22T20:56:19","modified_gmt":"2025-03-22T17:56:19","slug":"kenyan-air-force-md500e-539-which-crashed-in-the-kanyonga-area","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=3501","title":{"rendered":"Kenyan Air Force MD500E 539 which crashed in the Kanyonga area"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"617\" height=\"463\" class=\"wp-image-3502\" style=\"width: 1024px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-09-Kenyan-Air-Force-MD500E-539-which-crashed-in-the-Kanyonga-area.jpg\" alt=\"Kenyan Air Force MD500E 539 which crashed\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-09-Kenyan-Air-Force-MD500E-539-which-crashed-in-the-Kanyonga-area.jpg 617w, https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/2020-09-Kenyan-Air-Force-MD500E-539-which-crashed-in-the-Kanyonga-area-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 617px) 100vw, 617px\" \/><br><em>The wreckage of Kenya Air Force MD500E 539 which crashed in the Kanyonga area on July 13. (Photo by FAP)<\/em><br><br><strong>Kenyan Air Force (KAF)<\/strong><br>D: Jul 13, 2020<br>N: Kenya Air Force\/50th Air<br>Cavalry Battalion<br>T: MD500E<br>S: 539<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This helicopter was destroyed when it crashed at approximately 1130hrs local time in the Kanyonga area, Masinga Sub County, Machakos, in Kenya, during a training flight. Both crew members were killed. The cause was not immediately clear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><em><strong>Source<\/strong>: By Oscar Bernardi \/ AirForces Monthly &#8211; September 2020<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Editor:<\/strong> <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?cat=1682\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Beacky Maya Mugambi <\/a><\/strong>(<a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news.asp?newst=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">African \u00a9XAirForces News<\/a> Editor from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=166\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kenya <\/a><\/strong>and <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/news_country.asp?id=207\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Nigeria<\/a><\/strong>)<br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/?p=2164\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Nigerian Air Force (NAF) A-29 Super Tucano project on course for delivery as scheduled\">Facebook.com\/mayamugambi<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/Twitter.com\/BeackyMMugambi\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Twitter.com\/BeackyMMugambi<\/a> &#8211; <a href=\"mailto:BeackyMaya.Mugambi@yahoo.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">BeackyMaya.Mugambi@yahoo.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.xairforces.net\/newsd.asp?newsid=3166&amp;newst=2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">Kenyan Air Force MD500E 539 which crashed in the Kanyonga area<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wreckage of Kenya Air Force MD500E 539 which crashed in the Kanyonga area on July 13. (Photo by FAP) Kenyan Air Force (KAF)D: Jul 13, 2020N: Kenya Air Force\/50th AirCavalry BattalionT: MD500ES: 539&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3502,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[172,36,19,1682,1722,15,7,18,16,1673],"tags":[3657,3655,898,3654,3652,3653,3656,561],"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3501"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3504,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3501\/revisions\/3504"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3501"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3501"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.xairforces.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3501"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}