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This plane crash takes us to the west African country of Cameroon, which is located next to the following countries: Nigeria, Equatorial Guinea, Republic of the Congo, Central African Republic, Gabon and Chad.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.
Kenya Airways Flight 507, registered as 5 Yankee- Kilo Yankee Alpha (5Y-KYA), was a international scheduled passengers flight, that started at the Port Bouët Airport (IATA: ABJ, ICAO: DIAP), Abidjan, Ivory Coast, the flight had a stopover at the Douala International Airport (IATA: DLA, ICAO: FKKD), Douala, Cameroon and it's destination airport was Jomo Kenyatta International Airport (IATA: NBO, ICAO: HKJK), Nairobi, Kenya, this service was operated by a Boeing 737-800, that crashed in the initial stage of it's second leg (Douala- Nairobi) on the 5th of May 2007, immediate after takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon.
The plane broke apart into small pieces and it came to a rest mostly submerged in a mangrove swamp 5.4 kilometres to the south (176°) off the end of the Douala Airport's Runway 12, there were no survivors.
In the 55 seconds that followed after the plane took off, the plane wasn't being piloted by the pilot or the autopilot, this lead to the plane to gradually increase it's bank angle from less than 1° at the time the Captain let go of the control wheel to 34° when the bank angle warning came on, the Captain may have panicked at the sound of the warning, as he made a series of movements on the control wheel first to the left, then he moved it 40° to the right then 11° to the left, with the plane banking at 50° to the left, a belated attempt was made to engage the autopilot, the Captain tired to bring the plane under control by using the right rudder, causing the aircraft to bank further to the right, but by then the plane was banked at nearly 115° to the right at 2,290 feet of altitude and by now the plane was in a unrecoverable situation, the plane crashed into a mangrove swamp less then two minutes after takeoff, all 114 people on board the plane were killed in the crash.
The summary of the crash was Pilot error and Spatial disorientation.
