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| 'Contact lost' with Kenya flight | 'Contact lost' with Kenya flight |
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| Kenya Airways says it has lost contact with a Boeing 737-800 airliner flying to Nairobi from Douala in Cameroon with 115 people on board. | Kenya Airways says it has lost contact with a Boeing 737-800 airliner flying to Nairobi from Douala in Cameroon with 115 people on board. |
| The airline says the last message was received by the control tower in Douala immediately after take-off. | The airline says the last message was received by the control tower in Douala immediately after take-off. |
| Flight KQ 507 originated in Abidjan in Ivory Coast and left Douala at 2305 local time (0005 GMT) Friday. It was due to arrive in Nairobi at 0615. | |
| Kenya Airways says there were 106 passengers and nine crew on board. | |
| It has set up a crisis management centre at Embakasi at Nairobi airport. | |
| Connecting passengers | |
| Titus Naikuni, the company's chief executive officer, said: "Flight 507 was coming from Abidjan via Douala. The aircraft unfortunately has not arrived." | Titus Naikuni, the company's chief executive officer, said: "Flight 507 was coming from Abidjan via Douala. The aircraft unfortunately has not arrived." |
| "We have no details about what has happened to the aircraft," he said. | |
| Most of the passengers were said to be connecting at Nairobi to destinations outside Kenya. | |
| The Kenya Airways website says the fleet is 23 strong but only one of the planes is a 737-800. | |
| Kenya Airways is 26%-owned by Air France KLM's Dutch company KLM. | Kenya Airways is 26%-owned by Air France KLM's Dutch company KLM. |
| In January 2000 a Kenya Airways plane crashed into the sea after taking off from Abidjan airport in Ivory Coast killing 169 passengers and 10 crew. | In January 2000 a Kenya Airways plane crashed into the sea after taking off from Abidjan airport in Ivory Coast killing 169 passengers and 10 crew. |