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This article seems to have been started even before reports came out confirming the plane crash. 124.176.87.176 09:22, 5 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
This article was started as Flight KQ 507, however someone saw fit to change it to Flight 507, supposedly to be consistent with other Wikipedia articles. The company itself calls it Flight KQ 507, so why do some Wikipedia contributors see fit to change this fact by omission? Ajayvius 02:06, 6 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Why is there almost identical info in both articles? Should there even be a Wikipedia article? Perhaps once sentence in Wikipedia (at most), then redirection or link to Wikinews. rossnixon 05:11, 6 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
This article is in need of expansion. I will go to BBC and AP to see what they have and will expand the article asap. Terence 06:36, 6 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
I absolutely don't see any necessity of the world map highlighting the various countries of origin. What good does that do for the article or for coverage of the plane crash in general? If you want to list the countries, as the number missing section does, that is perfectly understandable. However, the map is pointless; just because one person from the U.S. is missing, you highlight it just as you did for Cameroon where 35 people were from? I understand the need to show how diverse the passenger list was, however a better picture would be a stock photo of the plane, the wreckage, etc... Neoelitism 17:05, 6 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
If the map is going to continue in the article can the Democratic Republic of Congo be highlighted as opposed to the Republic of the Congo (Congo-Brazzaville) — Preceding unsigned comment added by 91.125.21.122 (talk)
Since editing for this page is restricted, here are relevant news articles
Annesville 08:23, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
The "Tail number" link on the summary sidebar takes you to an AirLiners.net "Big-no-no" image. This link needs to be revised. Annesville 08:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
http://84.40.1.214/Nationalities%20List.htm Iceberg007 22:13, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
If there were 104 passengers and 9 crew, then how is there 114 fatalities? Does the 9 crew exclude the pilot but include the copilot (and flight engineer if there was one)? Is there some confusion because one of the crew members is not a Kenyan? Nil Einne 16:22, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
There was some confusion I believe because one person on board was an airline staff member of some sort who wasn't actually working, maybe a deadhead? Becaused of that, various sources recorded that person as crew and others as passenger. Ajayvius 00:06, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Seems a bit strange that one of three links at the end is to the Houston Chronicle? Rross101 18:09, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
i'm genuinely curious, why so many people from india in an 'inter-african' flight? --Leladax 22:28, 7 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
It seems unusual, along these lines of thought, that with a Kenyan national airliner en-route to the capital city of Kenya, the only Kenyans on board were the actual crew - no Kenyan passengers. Is that typical of Kenya Airways flights? Maybe Kenyans can't afford to fly. On Australian Qantas aircraft, I would expect maybe 80% of passengers to be Australian. Ajayvius 00:13, 9 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
There are two possible reasons for the few Kenyans on the plane. Kenya's airline is one of the bigger ones in Africa. It also has a codeshare with KLM. These two factors along with an aggressive expansion into the vaccum of West Africa explain why such a small country has its airliners as far West as Cameroon and Abdijan. There is little reason for Kenyans to be travelling in this direction, we do little trade with West Africa. On the other hand,in addition to being a major conference site Nairobi is an important hub for flights from the the Far East,the Indian sub-continent and the Middle East going on to West Africa. This is especially important for traders travelling to Dubai, Hong Kong and the Chinese mainland.
The second possible reason is that some of the Indians were actually Kenyan. Many Kenyan Indians hold more than one passport. ||||
Articles such as this one are stating that the crash site was Mbanga Pongo. However, I can't figure out if this is the name of a town, a village, or the mangrove swamp where the plane went down. It's probably worth mentioning in the article, but I thought I'd ask if anyone knows what this place is. Google results are little help, since removing terms related to the crash leaves only some non-English pages. — Brian (talk) 06:52, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
Why Is This Page Protected? Lukecarpenter169 07:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
According to news reports from 8 May 2007 Reuters India, the site of the crash is 5.42 km from the end of the runway in Douala, not 20 km from the airport as reported earlier and currently stated in the article in the infobox and in the text.
"From the end of the runway (to the crash site) it is 5.42 kilometres ... relatively close to Douala airport," Kenyan government spokesman Alfred Mutua said in Nairobi."
— Reuters India
Could someone verify this as well as provide an updated coordinate spec for the infobox? --Mareklug talk 22:32, 8 May 2007 (UTC)Reply
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 03:58, 9 November 2007 (UTC)Reply
I've added info from FlightGlobal's article on the final report: pilot error in info box, 1 line in lead, 1 para in investigations section. I'll look for a link to the report itself. Obviously everyone should feel free to add to and/or change what I added. -- Flyguy649 talk 14:17, 28 April 2010 (UTC)Reply
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When I try to archive the English final report with the appendices ( http://www.ccaa.aero/images/blogs/d033e22ae348aeb5660fc2140aec35850c4da99744f683a84163b3523afe57c2e008bc8c/rapport%20kenya.pdforhttp://www.caa.co.za/resource%20center/accidents%20&%20incid/reports/Foreign/Cameroon%20Accident.pdf), I get the error "Fatal error: Allowed memory size of 67108864 bytes exhausted (tried to allocate 23330816 bytes) in /home/webcita/public_html/metadata.inc.php on line 8"
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