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Article: Recovery mission finds 86 bodies at Kenya Airways crash site.(Brief Article)
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- February 1, 2000
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The recovery mission for the crash of a Kenya Airways Airbus 310, flying from Nairobi to Lagos has recovered 86 bodies.
The number of survivors still stands at ten, with one apparently swimming ashore, and those killed apparently numbering 169. Some of Kenya Airways` officials are said to have been onboard flight 430, which had been diverted to Abidjan due to bad weather.
Samuel Ogbada Adje, a survivor, has said that if rescue workers had arrived on the scene earlier than they did `...a lot of us would have been saved.` But the two-hour response time of the rescue teams has been ...