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Wednesday, February 2, 2000
Investigators probing cause of Africa crash fatal to 179
Associated Press
ABIDJAN, Ivory Coast - Grieving relatives of the victims of the Kenya Airways plane crash came to Ivory Coast on Tuesday, searching for news of their loved ones and sometimes finding the answer in Abidjan's morgue.
Ten people survived the crash into the Atlantic Ocean on Sunday night only moments after takeoff. Officials said 179 people were aboard Flight 431 bound for Nigeria, but only 86 bodies have been recovered.
A team of 14 firefighters looked for bodies Tuesday afternoon, but found none. Because of water currents, search efforts were concentrated about 12 miles from the crash site, said fire department rescue coordinator Lt. Col. Blaise Grah.
The plane, an Airbus 310, had taken off at 9:08 p.m. Witnesses said the plane never appeared to reach sufficient altitude as it headed out over the ocean, just a few hundred yards away. They heard no explosion and saw no flames.
Kenya Airways Technical Director Steve Clarke said he had no information Tuesday on what caused the crash.
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