Crash investigators combing through the wreckage of a Kenya Airways Flight were concentrating on the possibility that the jet lost power in both engines during a storm and tried to glide back to an airport before plunging nose-first into a Cameroon swamp.

A plane carrying 114 people nose-dived into a thick mangrove forest in Cameroon, disintegrating on impact and making the likelihood of survivors slim, aviation experts said today.

A Kenya Airways jetliner that plunged in a central African swamp was broken into pieces no bigger than a car door, a searcher disclosed today.

The wreckage of an aircraft which crashed in southern Cameroon with 114 people - including five Britons – on board was found tonight.

Signs have been found of a Kenya-bound flight that crashed in Cameroon with 114 people aboard, an aviation official said today.