By NNN-KBC
Nairobi : Reports now confirm that Kenya Airways flight number 507 crashed immediately after take-off from Douala in Cameroun.
It was due to arrive at the Jomo Kenyatta International Airport at 6:15am Saturday morning.
The flight had 115 passengers on board with one flight engineer. Reports indicate that most of the passengers were enroute to other destinations but connecting through JKIA on the Kenya Airways flight.
Insiders in the aviation industry say, emergency responses from the West African route have always been slow and poor.
They also feel that perhaps the plane could have attempted to crash-land in the thick equatorial forest.
Players in the industry are perturbed by the news of the air-crash and think that the air craft could have crash-landed over the dense equatorial forest in the Democratic Republic of Congo in a desperate effort.
The Congo forest is one of the very thick forests in Africa. It used to spread right across the African continent from the Atlantic Ocean in the West to the Indian Ocean in the East.
The Equatorial forest is known for its very thick trees and lianas. The area has very high humidity and thick cumulo-nimbus clouds are a permanent feature.
Rainfall over the forest is almost also permanent.
The flight from Douala in the Cameroun could have experienced bad weather over this thick forest as they flew towards Jomo Kenyatta International Airport.