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Article: Airliner Crashes in Cameroon
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- May 5, 2007
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YAOUNDE, Cameroon - A Kenya Airways passenger plane with more than 100 people on board crashed in southern Cameroon on Saturday, state radio reported.
The report said the Nairobi-bound jet went down near the town of Niete, about 125 miles south of the coastal city of Douala, where it had taken off shortly after midnight in this west African nation.
The report gave no further details.
Kenya Airways CEO Titus Naikuni, speaking in Nairobi, said he couldn't immediately confirm the radio report that the plane had crashed. "We have not been officially informed," he said.
Relatives waiting at Nairobi's airport began wailing when television news stations reported that the plane had crashed. ...