NAIROBI, May 5 (Xinhua) -- A plane of Kenya Airways with 115 people on board went missing on Saturday after taking off from Douala in west Cameroon, the company said.

    The flight KQ 507 operated by a B737-800 aircraft which departed from the largest port city of Douala in west Cameroon at 00:05 and was due to arrive in Nairobi at 06:15, said Kenya Airways in a press release on its website.

    There were 106 passengers, eight crewmembers and one engineer on the plane, Kenya Airways officials said in a press conference. The last message from the aircraft was received by the control tower in Douala immediately after takeoff.

    Kenya Airways has opened a crisis management center in Embakasi, southeast Nairobi, to monitor the situation.