The five Chinese aboard the Kenya Airways flight that disappeared in southern Cameroon early on Saturday have been identified.

The Chinese Embassy to Cameroon told China News Service that three out of the five boarded at Abidjan, the largest city in western Africa's Cote d'Ivoire. The first passenger, male, Jiang Xuedong, is an employee with a Chinese fishery company in Cote d'Ivoire. The other two, Bian Jingzhong and Shi Weisha, are a couple, who have their own business in Abidjan.

Another two Chinese passengers, male, got on the plane in Douala, the capital of western Cameroon's Littoral Province. One is Liu Sheng, an employee with Shenzhen-based Huawei Technologies. The other is Wu Changgen from Jiangsu Province. Wu was on a business tour in Cameroon.

The Kenya Airways plane carried at least 114 people on board.

Kenyan authorities said they were doing everything possible to locate the aircraft.

(CRI May 6, 2007)