KWALE, Kenya (AP) — A Budapest boxing club said on Wednesday that one of its board members and his family were among the 11 killed in a plane crash in Kenya the day before, while en route to Maasai Mara National Reserve.
The Vasas SC sports club said in a statement that Gyula Süllős was “a decades-long supporter” and president of its boxing program.
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Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Aircraft Accident Investigators inspect the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika, center, and other top government officials inspect at the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika (second right) and other top government officials inspect Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
All passengers on board the Cessna Caravan, eight Hungarians, two Germans and their Kenyan pilot, died when the aircraft crashed in a hilly, forested area of Kenya’s coastal Kwale County, shortly after taking off from an airstrip in the town of Diani.
Kenya’s aviation department secretary, Terry Mbaika, said Wednesday that some of the bodies are yet to be recovered. The roads leading to the crash site are not paved and the Kenyan coastal side has witnessed heavy rain.
Mbaika also said the investigation would take 30 days, promising to “do everything possible” to ensure its transparency.
The airline, Mombasa Air Safari, said in a statement Tuesday the pilot failed to communicate upon departure and that the airport control tower tried to reach him for 30 minutes before the plane was located.
Hungary's Foreign Minister Péter Szijjártó said Tuesday on social media that the Hungarian victims included two families. Two children among the dead, he wrote.
Kenya’s performance in accident investigation fell below the global average, according to the most recent safety oversight audit for Kenya posted on the International Civil Aviation Organization site in 2018.
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Associated Press writer Justin Spike in Budapest, Hungary, contributed to this report.
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Red Cross officials collect samples Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 at the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya. (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Directorate of Criminal Investigations and Aircraft Accident Investigators inspect the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika, center, and other top government officials inspect at the scene of a plane crash Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025, that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
Kenya Principal Secretary State Department for Aviation and Aerospace Development Teresia Mbaika (second right) and other top government officials inspect Wednesday, Oct. 29, 2025 the scene of a plane crash that killed 12 people near Diani, Kenya, (AP Photo/Andrew Kasuku)
