Kenya Airways plane found in Cameroon
No word of survivors
A Kenya Airways plane that went missing on Saturday with 114 passengers and crew on board was found yesterday in swamps southeast of Cameroon's Douala airport, officials said, but there was no word of survivors.
The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which was carrying passengers from more than 20 countries, went missing on Saturday shortly after taking off from Douala for Nairobi in torrential rain.
An aviation official said a ground team was at the site and a search party was trying to reach the area by helicopter.
Cameroon's territorial administration ministry called a news conference at short notice and Kenyan government officials in Nairobi called journalists back to an unscheduled news conference there too.
Kenya Airways Group Managing Director Titus Naikuni told a Nairobi news conference yesterday an air and ground search had been widened from southern Cameroon to swamp land some 40 km from Douala where fishermen reported a loud noise the night of the crash.
Earlier in the day, Cameroon's state radio station reported the plane had been found near Mvengue, more than 100 km further south, only to say later it could not confirm the report.