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A Call For Dust-Off

Steve Scott

Monday, May 21st, 2007

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The Search For A Reliable ELT Replacement When Kenya Airways Flt KQ507 went down shortly after takeoff from Douala Cameroon, the search started 250 kms away. Even though Douala ATC had declared the aircraft incommunicado when it didn't check in passing 5000ft in the climb, they were not to know that it wasn't still airborne. Alex Bayeck, an official with the Cameroon government, initially announced that the Nairobi-bound plane had gone down 250kms from Douala, the commercial capital of Cameroon.…

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