Kenya Airways Flight 431

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Kenya Airways Flight 431 on 30 January 2000 crashed into the sea at 21:09:24 GMT, shortly after takeoff from Abidjan to Lagos. There were 179 people on board the Airbus A310 jet aircraft, 169 passengers and 10 crew members. 10 passengers survived the crash. Of the 169 fatalities, 146 bodies were recovered. 103 of those bodies were identified. The aircraft originated in Nairobi and was meant to stop over in Lagos but flew directly to Abidjan because of weather conditions over Lagos. Harmattan winds coming down from the Sahara to the north had made skies over Lagos unusually hazy on Sunday, and the airport stopped incoming flights. After a three-hour layover, the Kenya Airways Flight 431 took off for Lagos at 21:08 GMT and crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off Côte d''Ivoire one minute later.[citation needed] Kenya Airways Flight 431 has the highest death toll of any aviation accident involving an Airbus A310. The Bureau d''Enquêtes et d''Analyses pour la Sécurité de l''Aviation Civile, the accident investigation authority of France, wrote the investigation to the incident.... Mehr