People from at least 23 different nationalities were on board, according to Kenya Airways.

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Passengers flying on South African Airways (SAA), Kenya Airways and Ethiopian Airlines were stranded on Wednesday, he adds.

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Despite the Kenya Airways crash, the airline's first in 23 years of flying, there is some cause for optimism.

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British Airways immediately suspended all flights to and from Kenya "until further notice", the airline said in a statement.

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Odeh left Kenya the day before the attack, according to travel records introduced into evidence, taking a Pakistani International Airways flight that landed in Karachi just a few hours before the bombing occurred.

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