This image provided by Boeing Aircraft
shows a 737-800 in Kenya Airways colors. A Kenya Airways 737-800 crashed
in southern Cameroon on Saturday May 5, 2007, state radio reported.
(Xinhua/AFP Photo)
BEIJING, May 6 (Xinhua) -- Chinese Foreign Ministry said here Sunday that the accurate information about five Chinese passengers aboard a Kenya Airways aircraft that went missing early Saturday is yet to be confirmed.
Chinese embassies and consulates in countries
concerned have contacted some of the Chinese passengers' employers to confirm
their identities and would provide assistance for dealing with the aftermath,
said sources with the ministry.
The five Chinese were among the 105 passengers aboard
a Kenya Airways Boeing 737-800 plane, which originated from Cote D'Ivoire but
was stopping over in Cameroon's Douala en route to East African country of
Kenya. The aircraft left Douala at five minutes past midnight but failed to
arrive in Nairobi, Kenya, as scheduled. The plane is believed to have come down
in dense jungle shortly after taking off.
According to the latest briefing of the Kenya Airways
on Sunday, as being hampered by dense forest, rescuers have not found the
wreckage of the plane yet, so it can not be said that the plane had crashed, the
sources with the Chinese Foreign Ministry said.
Chinese Foreign Ministry said they have sent staff to
the accident site and urged local departments concerned to provide information
of the Chinese passengers in time.
ABIDJAN, May 5 (Xinhua) -- Three Chinese passengers
have been identified as a Kenyan Airways aircraft they were traveling on went
missing earlier Saturday morning, the Chinese Embassy in Coted'Ivoire confirmed
on Saturday.
The three Chinese, two men and one woman, boarded the
Boeing 737-800 in Abidjan, the economic capital of Cote d'Ivoire, where the
aircraft took off and was bound for Kenya's capital Nairobi via Cameroon's
coastal city of Douala, the embassy said. Full story
YAOUNDE, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A Kenya Airways flight
with 115 people aboard crashed on Saturday in a town between Nyede and Mvengue
in the department of Ocean, southern Cameroon, Cameroonian national radio
reported on Saturday.
Taking off at 00:05 (local time) on May 5 from the
largest port city of Douala in west Cameroon and was due to arrive in Nairobi at
06:15 on Saturday, the plane lost contact with the Doula airport a few minutes
after its departure. Full story
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