SOME clarifications:
Airline officials said they lost contact with the Nairobi-bound Boeing 737-800 only 11 minutes after its midnight takeoff from Douala, Cameroon.
Cameroon aviation officials said they received a distress call from the plane several hours after the crash, but Kenya Airways officials said the signal appeared to be an automated beacon relayed by the plane's computers, not the pilot.
Officials did not speculate on the cause of the crash, but some suggested that weather may have been a factor.
from the LA times.
I too believe the last transmission was a handoff...would like to know what was said, perhaps a request to deviate around wx, or at least an advisory that deviation was in progress.