Kenya Airways (KQ) has debuted on the National Geographic channel’s investigative series, Air Crash Investigation, over its ill-fated 2007 flight in Duala, Cameroon.
Kenya Airways flight KQA507 to Nairobi from Abidjan plunged into a mangrove swamp on a stormy night just minutes after take-off, killing all the 114 people on board on May 5 2007.
”Season 20 Episode 10: Stormy Cockpit”, which aired on the channel on Friday. The episode had a lot in similarity with the 2010 report by Cameroon’s civil aviation authority which majorly attributed the Boeing’s crash to pilot error.
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In the introduction, the episode says that ”A brand new 737 boeing falls from the sky over West Africa during a major storm but investigators discover that weather had nothing to do with the crash”.
“After a long slow roll during which no instrument scanning was done, and in the absence of external visual references in a dark night,” the report said.
Investigators also found out that the pilot and his first officer, Andrew Kiuru, 23, did not have external visual references but they were flying in darkness in a heavy downpour.
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Report further show that when the warning was sounded instead of correcting to the left, the Captain turned further right, a move which further increased the bank and ultimately sent the plane into a spiral.
Shortcomings in the work of the crew was also brought out as the crew is accused of not working as a team. The crew took off without authorization from air traffic controller at Douala airport
But he then KQ Managing Director Titus Naikuni has expressed some KQ’s reservations with the report saying that some findings are not factual like the pilot not properly engaging autopilot after take-off.
