| has gloss | eng: The 1982 Kenyan coup détat attempt was a failed attempt to overthrow President Daniel arap Mois government. At midnight on Sunday, August 1, 1982, a group of soldiers from the Kenya Air Force took over the radio station Voice of Kenya and announced that they had overthrown the government. The group tried to force a group of Air Force fighter pilots to bomb the State House on gunpoint. Pilots pretended to follow the orders on the ground but once airborne they ignored them and instead dropped the bombs to Mount Kenya forests unarmed . |