Kenya Airways Flight 507
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| Occurrence | |
|---|---|
| Date | May 5, 2007 |
| Summary | Boeing 737-800 |
| Site | Near the village of Awanda, near the town of Mvengue, southwest of the capital Yaounde, Cameroon |
| Aircraft type | Boeing 737-800 |
| Operator | Kenya Airways |
| Registration | 5Y-KYA |
| Passengers | 105 |
| Crew | 9 |
| Fatalities | Unknown |
| Injuries | Undetermined |
| Survivors | Unknown |
Kenya Airways Flight KQ 507 was a Boeing 737 flight of Kenya Airways flying from Douala International Airport in Douala, Cameroon to Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya. The flight originated from Port Bouet Airport in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire but made a stop in Douala to pick up more passengers. It departed Doula at 0105 GMT (0005 local time) on 5 May 2007. It had been sceduled to arrive in Nairobi at 0315 GMT (0615 local time). Kenya Airways says that there were passengers from at least 23 different countries on the plane.[1]
Kenya Airways lost contact with the plane soon after takeoff from Douala. The control tower received a distress signal from the aircraft before the loss of contact.[2] The lost aircraft was one of three 737-800s that Kenya Airways had recently added to its fleet, acquiring it from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise.[3] The airframe first flew on October 9, 2006[4] and was delivered from Boeing later that month.[5]
Kenya Airways has set up a crisis management center at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi.
On 6 May, Cameroon's state radio interrupted broadcasts to report that wreckage of the plane had been found near Mvengue, southwest of the capital Yaounde, only to say later it could not confirm the report.[6]
Nationalities of those missing
- 2 Unknown
- 35 Cameroon
- 15 India
- 9 Kenyan crew members
- 7 South Africa
- 6 People's Republic of China; Ivory Coast; Nigeria
- 5 United Kingdom
- 3 Niger
- 2 Central African Republic; Democratic Republic of the Congo; Equatorial Guinea
- 1 South Korea; Ghana; Sweden; Togo; Mali; Switzerland; Comoros; Egypt; Mauritius; Senegal; Congo; Tanzania; United States; Burkina Faso
References
- ^ "Kenya plane 'crashes in Cameroon'". BBC News. 2007-05-05. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ "Plane Carrying 115 People Crashes". Sky News. 2007-05-05. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
- ^ "Plane was one of KQ's newly acquired crafts". Sunday Times. 2007-05-05. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
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"planespotters.net". planespotters.net. 06/05/2007. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
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"airliners.net". airliners.net. 06/05/2007. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
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- ^ "S.Korean gov't confirms one Korean citizen killed in plane crash in Cameroon". People's Daily Online. 2007-05-06. Retrieved 2007-05-06.
- ^ "Search for missing jet suspended". News.com.au. 2007-05-05. Retrieved 2007-05-05.
External links
- Airliner crashes in Cameroon (chron.com)
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