Kenya Airways Flight 507 was a scheduled
Abidjan–Douala–Nairobi passenger service, operated with a Boeing 737-800, that
crashed in the initial stage of its second leg on 5 May 2007, immediately after
takeoff from Douala International Airport in Cameroon.
The plane broke up into small pieces and came to rest mostly
submerged in a mangrove swamp, 5.4 kilometres (3.4 mi) to the south (176°) of
the end of the Douala International Airport's runway 12.[4][5] There were no
survivors. The investigation by the Cameroon Civil Aviation Authority
determined that the pilots failed to notice and correct excessive bank
following takeoff. This led to the loss of control and crash of the
aircraft.
After the crash, the flight route designation
was changed from KQ507 to KQ504 for flights between Douala and Nairobi with the
same aircraft type.
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