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Grim Work Continues at Plane Crash Site

Tuesday, May 08, 2007 6:52:15 PM
By HEIDI VOGT

Rescue workers stand amid scattered debris of the Kenya Airways plane that crashed at Mbanga Pongo, Cameroon, Tuesday, May 8, 2007. Africa's air safety record is among the worst in the world. The crash of Kenya Airways Flight 507, which killed all 114 people on board, put a spotlight on air travel in a continent with vast expanses where radar coverage is sparse to nonexistent. (AP Photo/Sunday Alamba)MBANGA-PONGO, Cameroon (AP) - Recovery teams in a dense mangrove swamp where a Kenya Airways jet crashed and killed all 114 people aboard pressed ahead with their grim, muddy job after failing in a bid Tuesday to pump water away from the wreckage.

Friends and relatives of the victims, who included at least one American, were allowed briefly at the site before authorities barred access in order to preserve evidence.

Lydienne Eyoum, whose two colleagues from a Cameroon-based law firm died in Saturday's crash of Flight 507, wept as she walked through the brush, leaning on a rescue worker.


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