Recovery of victims from the Cameroon crash of a Kenya Airways passenger jet in which five Britons died was stepped up today, with teams removing bodies from the plane’s submerged fuselage for the first time.

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.

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