Cameroon's crash pilot 'warned'

The Kenya Airways plane came down in dense mangrove swamps

The pilot of the plane that crashed in Cameroon earlier this month was warned about the stormy weather, Cameroon's Civil Aviation Authority head has said.

"The control tower gave all the meteorological information to the commander of the flight... he decided to take off," Ignatius Sama Juma said.

Kenya Airways Boeing 737 crashed into swampland soon after take-off from Douala, killing all 114 passengers.

The official inquiry is yet to report on the cause of the disaster.

So far the data recorder has been recovered, but not the voice recorder.

Flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders contain a wide variety of information, including speed and altitude as well as cockpit voice communications.

People from at least 23 nations had been travelling on board flight KQ 507 which took off in heavy rain en route to the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, on Saturday 5 May.

Mr Sama Juma said two other planes had also been due to leave that night, but waited until the weather conditions improved.

Search parties took nearly two days to locate the wreckage.

The distress beacon was found on Tuesday, state media reports.

The BBC's Randy Joe Sa'ah, in Cameroon, says there has been growing anger about the slow recovery process among the families of the victims.