NAIROBI, May 6: Kenya Airways confirmed on Sunday that the wreckage of a Kenyan Airways plane carrying 114 people was found in swampland in southwest Cameroon more than 36 hours after it went missing.
“Kenya Airways regrets to confirm that its flight KQ 507 has been located on a mangrove swamp,” near Douala, in Cameroon, from where it took off, the company's CEO Titus Naikuni told a news conference in Nairobi.
“We have no confirmed information about survivors or any possible casualties,” he said.
“The reason, apparently, that it was not sighted much earlier was that the aircraft was covered by trees.” The plane was carrying 105 passengers from at least 23 countries and nine Kenyan crew. It sent out a distress signal shortly after taking off from Douala in a violent storm after midnight Friday, headed for Nairobi.—AFP
