May 08, 2007

Kenya Airways wreckage spotted

Rescue teams in Cameroon believe they have found the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane carrying 114 people, including 15 Indians, and missing for more than 36 hours.

Rescue teams in Cameroon believe they have found the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane carrying 114 people, including 15 Indians, and missing for more than 36 hours, a Kenyan Civil Aviation Authority official said today. "Rescue teams that were coming back from a search mission spotted something that appeared like the Kenya Airways wreckage and they informed the other rescuers in Douala who have sent a ground team to confirm at the site," the official said, asking not to be named.

He said an air resuce team spotted the wreck among mangroves near the sea 10 kilometres north of Douala, from where the plane departed.

"The team should arrive there in 30 minutes and give us the final confirmation," he said.

The Boeing 737-800, which began its journey in the Ivory Coast city of Abidjan, took off from Douala airport in western Cameroon in a violent storm after midnight Friday, headed for Nairobi.

The plane was carrying 105 passengers from at least 23 countries and nine Kenyan crew, and sent out a distress signal shortly after taking off.


Source: www.deccanherald.com

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