Their plane is out of the five-week air rally  taking the planes, some of them nearly 100 years old, from Greece to South Africa.

John Ordway and his daughter Isabella were fortunate  to escape safely from their 1941 Boeing Stearman that suffered todal engine and crash-landed in Mariashoni in Molo, Nakuru.

They were flying to Nairobi from Eldoret. Ordway, representing Ireland in the event, said they’re lucky to be alive.

He and his daughter have been interchangeably flying the plane as Ms Orway worked towards getting her pilot licence next year.

County police commander Hassan Barua said his officers were on the ground assessing the scene.

Ms Ordway says flying has always been a part of her life even though I was never formally a pilot.

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