In , the airline experienced its first fatal accident when an Airbus A310 that had been bought new in 1986 crashed off Ivory Coast , shortly after taking off from Abidjan . By the same year , the fleet consisted of four Airbus A310-300s , two Boeing 737-200 Advanced and four Boeing 737-300s . At this time the company had a staff of 2,780 , including 400 engineers , 146 flight crew and 365 cabin crew . From its main hub at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport , scheduled services were operated to Abidjan , Addis Ababa , Amsterdam , Bujumbura , Cairo , Copenhagen , Dar es Salaam , Douala , Dubai , Eldoret , Entebbe/Kampala , Harare , Johannesburg , Karachi , Khartoum , Kigali , Kinshasa , Lagos , Lilongwe , Lokichoggio , London , Lusaka , Mahe Island , Malindi , Mombasa , Mumbai , and Zanzibar . In 2002 , an order for Boeing 777-200ERs was placed with Boeing ; an additional aircraft of the type was acquired in . In , Boeing 787-8s were ordered ; the first two examples would be delivered in and the rest in . The original Boeing 787 order was amended months later to include more aircraft of the type . The first Embraer 190 joined the fleet in December 2010
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Kenya Airways Flight 431
Kenya Airways