Official says 115 people aboard missing Kenya Airways plane

A plane of Kenya Airways with 115 people on board went missing on Saturday after taking off from Douala in west Cameroon, the company said.

The flight KQ 507 operated by a B737-800 aircraft which departed from the largest port city of Douala in west Cameroon at 00:05 and was due to arrive in Nairobi at 06:15, said Kenya Airways in a press release on its website.

There were 106 passengers, eight crew members and one engineer on the plane, Kenya Airways officials said in a press conference.

The last message from the aircraft was received by the control tower in Douala immediately after takeoff.

Kenya Airways has opened a crisis management center in Embakasi, southeast Nairobi, to monitor the situation.

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