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The seven people who died in a helicopter crash on Mount Ololokwe in Samburu County included a Kenyan, five Americans and an Ecuadorian.
The deceased include the Kenyan pilot and director of African Heli Adventures, Josh Outram, as well as Ecuador's intelligence chief, Michele Sensi-Contugi, and his wife, Stephany Hollihan Yeaza, who held Ecuadorian and American citizenship.
The site where a helicopter ferrying tourists crashed at Mt Ololokwe in Samburu East on August 19, 2026. Seven people died.
According to the American media outlet NBC 6, most of the victims had links to Miami, Florida, where they were corporate executives or business leaders.
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