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Articles: 'No survivors' in Cameroon crash
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Posted by Admin on Monday, May 07, 2007 - 12:54 PM
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Namibian Elections 2004A Kenya Airways plane that crashed in Cameroon o­n Saturday has been found submerged in a swamp and there is no chance of any survivors, officials say.
Rescue workers prepare body bags near to the crash site in Cameroon
The crash site is in dense and hard-to-access mangrove forest

The Boeing 737-800 was carrying 114 people from at least 23 countries.

The plane, which originated in Ivory Coast, came down shortly after taking off in heavy rain from Douala en route to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi.

The wreckage of the six-month-old jet was found more than 36 hours after vanishing from radar screens.

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"There are no chances that there will be any survivors because almost the entire body of the plane was buried inside the swamp," Jean-Pierre Nana, director of Cameroon's civil protection department, told Reuters.

On Monday, rescuers battled through dense mangrove swamps to reach the wreckage, after parts of the jet were discovered late o­n Sunday.

Locals made the grim find 20km (12 miles) south-east of Douala.

"I saw o­ne body and o­ne arm. We also saw some seats and a piece of plane about the size of a car door," Guiffo Gande told reporters in Mbanga Pongo village.

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Flight KQ 507 left Douala at 0005 o­n Saturday (2305 GMT Friday) and was due to arrive in Kenya at 0615 (0315 GMT).

NATIONALITIES OF MISSING
35 Cameroon
15 India
9 Kenya (crew)
7 South Africa
6 China
6 Ivory Coast
6 Nigeria
5 Britain
3 Niger
2 Central African Republic
2 Democratic Republic of Congo
2 Equatorial Guinea
1 Ghana; Sweden; Togo; Mali; Switzerland; Comoros; Egypt; Mauritius; Senegal; Congo; Tanzania; US; Burkina Faso
3 unidentified
Source: Kenya Airways

It sent a communication to the control tower in Douala shortly after take-off and later issued an automatic distress signal, Kenya Airways said.

Search efforts initially focused o­n dense jungle under the plane's intended flight path from Douala and then o­n a swamp area where fishermen reported hearing noises the night the plane disappeared.

It was the fishermen who led rescuers to the site, said Kenya Airways CEO Titus Naikuni.

Officials said it was too early determine what caused the crash.

With the site inaccessible to vehicles, the recovery of bodies and investigation will be a difficult and slow process, says the BBC's Noel Mwakugu in Doula.

The aircraft was just six months old and part of a new fleet bought by the airline, which has a good safety record.

In January 2000, o­ne of its planes crashed into the sea after taking off from Abidjan, killing 169 passengers. Ten people survived.

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