Was Flight KQ 507 Brought Down?

As signs of the aircraft are reportedly found

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Tears came to my eyes when a relative of one of the 9 crew members of the fateful KQ 507 jet aircraft told journalists that he was clinging to the hope that the plane crash landed with minimal fatalities. The tears were because the news coming in from the ground in Cameroon as a large-scale frantic search and rescue effort continues is not good and may not be consistent with the wishes and hopes of this Kenyan and his family whose brother was on the fateful flight.
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This seems to have been further confirmed by an official Douala airport quoted by the authoritative Aljazeera.net who said that 'signs of the aircraft' had been found without commenting further. Read the article here.

Several eyewitness reports coming in, that are being followed up have reported hearing a loud bang. This would suggest an explosion. It is feasible that an explosion of some sort is to be expected when an aircraft this large coming down breaks up on impact with the ground. However what has happened in similar cases in the past is that eyewitnesses have reported a tremor of sorts followed by a loud bang and more tremors and shaking of the ground, which would usually suggest that the whole aircraft came down more or less intact.

In sharp contrast, all eyewitness claims so far, which are too similar to each other to be quickly written off as hoaxes, say that a loud bang was heard. Interestingly this bang was heard over a very wide area. This would also explain one of the reasons why it has been so difficult to trace any debris so far. Implying the possibility that they may have been spread over a very wide area.

The explosion theory also seems to be supported by the initial report given by Kenya Airways when the aircraft "disappeared" in the early hours of Saturday morning. The statement clearly said; the aircraft "had disappeared from radar." This is usually what happens when there is a mid air collision or explosion where the aircraft breaks up in the air. But even more telling was the distress signal the Cameroonians announced that they received. They were very specific that it was an automated distress signal "from a machine and not from the pilot."

There are a few things that can cause an explosion in mid air other than a bomb on board or a missile. In the controversial Flight TWA 800 case where an aircraft suddenly exploded in mid air shortly after take off from New York, the problem was traced to faulty wiring that passed too close to an almost empty fuel tank. Aircrafts fuel tanks are extremely inflammable when they are near empty. Additional safety precautions have been taken since and aircrafts these days have a reinforced wiring systems that avoid at all costs being anywhere close to fuel tanks. Flight TWA 800 was a Transworld Airlines Boeing 747-131 which exploded in mid air in front of several eye witnesses on July 17th 1996 during a scheduled flight from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York headed for Paris, France.

While I would not like to speculate at this early juncture, one cannot as yet rule out the possibilities that Flight KQ 507 may have been brought down by either a bomb or a surface to air missile.

But by whom? And why?

Enemies of KQ and the nation of Kenya have been on the increase in recent times and investigators must take all these facts into account. For instance the airline has won some very ugly turf wars against other major airlines and interests in their highly successful expansion program of recent years that has seen the airline gain a stranglehold over West and Central African routes enabling it to retain its' hard earned image of being one of the very few profitable airlines in the world. An accident of this nature could be used to discredit the airline, which has an excellent image and a good safety record apart from two still unexplained crashes that incidentally both happened in West Africa and close to Abidjan, Ivory Coast.

Then there is the increased use of Kenya by the Americans in the ongoing fight against terrorism and suspected Al Qaeda cells in neighboring Somalia. What keeps on nagging on my mind is the fact that if anybody wanted to target a Kenya Airways plane the area over Cameroon from Douala would be the perfect place for such a mission. It is very remote and consists mainly of very thick forest vegetation that is so dense that search and rescue require flashlights to peer into the undergrowth during broad daylight. Vast tracts of area are virtually inaccessible by a car and besides tracks into the thick bush are rare, let alone roads into most of the bush.

Bereaved families of those involved in their terrible incident will be happy to know that both Boeing (the manufacturers of the missing plane) and the most experienced flight investigation unit in the world, the American National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), have both sent experts to Cameroon to join the search and rescue teams and will be fully involved in the investigations into this tragedy.

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