General News of Saturday, 5 May 2007

Source: GNA

Crashed Kenyan Airways Flight not from Ghana

Accra, May 5, GNA - The Kenyan Airways Flight, which crashed in Southern Cameroon with 114 people on board, was not the one which left Accra, Ghana Friday night.

Officials of the Airline told the Ghana News Agency at the Kotoka International Airport that, the Kenyan Airways Flight KQ 511, which left Accra last night for Nairobi had safely arrived.

Cameroon State radio has reported that a Kenya Airways Flight which originated from Abidjan Cote d'Ivoire crashed in Southern Cameroon. The manifest of the plane indicated that people of 23 nationalities including a Ghanaian were on board the ill-fated flight.