Aviation in Cameroon - Airlines of Cameroon, Airports in Cameroon, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Cameroon, Kenya Airways Flight 507 (Paperback)

Chapters: Airlines of Cameroon, Airports in Cameroon, Aviation Accidents and Incidents in Cameroon, Kenya Airways Flight 507, List of Airports in Cameroon, Douala International Airport, Elysian Airlines, Yaounde Nsimalen International Airport, Cameroon Airlines Flight 3701, Caledonian Airways Flight 153, Foumban Nkounja Airport, National Airways Cameroon, Yaounde Airport, Salak Airport, Garoua International Airport, Ngaoundere Airport, Section Liaison Air Yaounde, Air Leasing Cameroon, Mamfe Airport, Bamenda Airport, Bafoussam Airport, Tiko Airport, Kaele Airport, Batouri Airport, Bertoua Airport, Dschang Airport, Ebolowa Airport, Kribi Airport, Yagoua Airport, Bali Airport, Limbe Airport, Nkongsamba Airport, List of Airlines of Cameroon. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Kenya Airways Flight 507 - Flight 507 was one of three flights scheduled to depart Douala airport around midnight on May 5. It was being flown using one of three 737-800s that Kenya Airways had recently acquired from Singapore Aircraft Leasing Enterprise. The airframe first flew on October 9, 2006 and was delivered from Boeing later that month. The aircrews of the other two flights, Cameroon Airways and Royal Air Maroc, elected to wait for the weather to improve, while the Kenya Airways crew, perhaps because they had already been delayed over an hour, elected to take off. Contact with the plane was lost soon after takeoff from Douala; it did not report in upon reaching 5,000 feet as was procedure. The control tower may have received a distress signal from the aircraft before the loss of contact; later reports contradicted the statement. Kenya Airways set up a crisis management center at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi. On 6 May 2007, Cameroon's state radio inte...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=11066183