Kenya Airways B737 Crash - Douala 5 May 2007
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Kenyan TV reports that KQ flight 507 lost contact with Douala control over Congo. Approx 120 pax onboard. Equipment was KQ's brand new 738. AC was expected in Nairobi four hours ago. It's now 10.00hrs (GMT +3).
Plane is most likely crashed.
Plane is most likely crashed.
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115 people on board....
106 PAX
009 Crew
Lets hope they locate the aircraft verry soon, and a good research will start...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm
106 PAX
009 Crew
Lets hope they locate the aircraft verry soon, and a good research will start...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6627485.stm
Aisle seat, please.
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Apparently the flight originated in Abidjan before flying on to Douala. This brings back some very sad memories. Thoughts are with all onboard.
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Getting conflicting reports that it lost contact on climb out, OR it lost contact east of yaounde, v different scenarios. Also news that a CHC twotter is searching at the moment. Anybody got anything??
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Found on google-news, published about 20 min ago:
A Kenya Airways airliner with 115 people on board that disappeared after taking off from Douala airport in Cameroon has crashed, an aviation official said today.
"The plane has crashed," said the official with the Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority, asking not to be named.
A top government official said: "We have located the plane ... and we cannot talk about it."
The plane, a Boeing 737-800 carrying 106 passengers, eight crew members and a flight engineer, was due to land in Nairobi on Saturday at 6.15am (1315 AEST).
Most of the passengers were connecting through Nairobi to other destinations outside Kenya.
A crisis centre has been set up at the company headquarters at Nairobi airport.
A different report:
YAOUNDE, May 5 (Reuters) - A Kenya Airways plane reported missing on Saturday has crashed in southern Cameroon, the central African country's state radio said.
The radio said the plane had crashed near a location called Niete, south of the Cameroonian port town of Kribi and north of the border with Equatorial Guinea. It gave no further details.
Kenya Airways earlier said it had lost contact with a 737-800 airliner bound for Nairobi with 115 people aboard, shortly after it took off from Douala in Cameroon.
I hope they find some survivors
A Kenya Airways airliner with 115 people on board that disappeared after taking off from Douala airport in Cameroon has crashed, an aviation official said today.
"The plane has crashed," said the official with the Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority, asking not to be named.
A top government official said: "We have located the plane ... and we cannot talk about it."
The plane, a Boeing 737-800 carrying 106 passengers, eight crew members and a flight engineer, was due to land in Nairobi on Saturday at 6.15am (1315 AEST).
Most of the passengers were connecting through Nairobi to other destinations outside Kenya.
A crisis centre has been set up at the company headquarters at Nairobi airport.
A different report:
YAOUNDE, May 5 (Reuters) - A Kenya Airways plane reported missing on Saturday has crashed in southern Cameroon, the central African country's state radio said.
The radio said the plane had crashed near a location called Niete, south of the Cameroonian port town of Kribi and north of the border with Equatorial Guinea. It gave no further details.
Kenya Airways earlier said it had lost contact with a 737-800 airliner bound for Nairobi with 115 people aboard, shortly after it took off from Douala in Cameroon.
I hope they find some survivors
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Close source confirms plane has crashed south of Douala. Crisis Management Centre has been setup in Douala. Emergency Teams have been activated. A sad day indeed.
I know a lot of their crew mostly South African trained.
I know a lot of their crew mostly South African trained.
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Rumors already milling that the a/c was highjacked as soon as it was airborne?? Please do not quote me the info is still very very fresh...
May God have mercy on the souls on board.
May God have mercy on the souls on board.
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the 737-800
KQ 507, a boeing 737-800 was six months old,the first 800 series to be purchased by KQ, quite odd to me for a plane this young to have malfunctioned.what do you guys think? what could be the cause of such a crash??