Olympic champion survives 'scary' plane crash

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Double Olympic champion David Rudisha is unharmed aft surviving a level clang successful his location state of Kenya.

Rudisha, who won golden successful the 800m astatine the 2012 and 2016 Olympics, was 1 of six radical progressive successful a clang helium described arsenic a "scary episode".

"All was good adjacent to 7 oregon 8 minutes into the formation erstwhile the motor of the level abruptly went quiet," the 33-year-old told Kenya's The Daily Nation.

"He (the pilot) saw immoderate wide abstraction wherever helium tried to onshore the plane, but 1 of its wings deed a histrion arsenic the level started to rotation earlier landing connected the rocky field.

"The aviator did an unthinkable occupation to support the level afloat and unchangeable for long."

Rudisha besides survived a car mishap successful Kenya successful 2019 erstwhile a tyre burst and his SUV collided with a bus.

Rudisha clocked 1:40.91 successful the 800m last astatine the 2012 London Olympics to acceptable a satellite grounds that inactive stands.

The towering African produced a gun-to-tape triumph wide seen arsenic 1 of the top diversion performances successful history.

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