Kokoro Janda

Kokoro Janda is a Ugandan airline pilot, who serves as a Captain on the A330-800 equipment at Uganda National Airlines Company, the revived national airline of Uganda. He has worked with Uganda Airlines since 2021.

Background and education He is a Ugandan national by birth. He hails from Arua District. He holds a Commercial pilot licence from the Federal Aviation Administration in the United States. He also holds an ICAO Airline Transport Pilot Licence. He graduated from Lynn University, in Boca Raton, Florida, United States, with a Bachelor of Science degree in Aviation Management. He was also the pilot in command on the Uganda Airlines Airbus A330-800 maiden flight to Nairobi on 27 August 2021.

Captain Kokoro Janda was part of the three-person cockpit crew who piloted Flight UR445 from Dubai International Airport to Entebbe International Airport on 30 November 2024. That flight, with captain Peter Thomas as the pilot-in-command also had First Officer Ivan Massa in the cockpit. It was the last commercial flight captained by Peter Thomas, who retired after that.