Crashed Kenya Airways plane found

Yaounde: A Kenya Airways plane that went missing yesterday with 114 passengers and crew on board was found overnight in swamps south-east of Cameroon's Douala airport.
State radio quoted a working group created by Cameroon's prime minister to handle the crisis as saying the craft had been found in mangrove swamps near Dizangue, south-east of Douala airport. The Boeing 737-800 aircraft, which was carrying 114 people from more than 20

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Victims from 27 nations
The Kenya Airways flight KQ 507, which
was bound for Nairobi, went missing
shortly after it took off from Douala in
Cameroon. Nationalities of the passengers
who were on board KQ 507:
CAMEROON 37, INDIA 15, SOUTH
AFRICA 7, IVORY COAST 6, NIGERIA 6,
CHINA 5, BRITAIN 5, NIGER 3, CAR 2,
EQUITORIAL GUINEA 2, DRC 2
MAURITANIA 1, KOREAN 1,SWISS 1,
MALI 1, TOGO 1, SWEDEN 1, GHANA 1,
OMOROS 1, MAURITIUS 1, SENEGAL 1,
CONGO 1, EGYPT 1, TANZANIA 1, US 1,
BURKINA FASO 1, KENYA ( CREW) 9.
Total 114.
06/05/07 The Standard, Kenya
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countries, went missing yesterday shortly after taking off from Douala for Nairobi in torrential rain.
The radio did not mention casualties or survivors. An aviation official declined to give any details, but confirmed there was a ground team 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 today an air and ground search had been widened from southern Cameroon to swampland about 40km from Douala where fishermen reported a loud noise the night of the crash.
06/05/07 Daily Telegraph, Australia

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