National day of mourning

Today is the National Day of Mourning for all those who lost their lives in Kenya Airways flight KQ507. There doesn’t seem to be much going on in the way of commemoration apart from flags flying at half mast.

National flags at half mast at Jomo Kenyatta’s mausoleum, Nairobi

National flag and Nairobi City Council flag at half mast outside City Hall, Nairobi

COMESA national flags at half mast, KICC, Nairobi

There is an inter-denominational prayer service at KICC led by President Kibaki although when we walked towards the door we were told by a policeman that it was a COMESA event so not to sure what is going on there.

Then there are those who think having a national day of mourning is a joke.

More and more sides of this story are coming out now, including the information that two other planes from Cameroon Airlines and Royal Air Maroc opted to wait for the storm to die down while the Kenya Airways crew decided it was safe enough to take off.

However we would all be wise to heed the words of Kenya Airways chief executive Titus Naikuni who said investigators would have to make the final assessment. The probe was likely to take months.

“We don’t want to start speculating here,” he said Friday in Kenya. “So whether the pilot did the wrong thing or the right thing, I cannot answer that.”

Investigators said they cannot yet discount other factors, including mechanical failure, pilot disorientation or even sabotage.

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