Yemen Airline Plane Crash Near Comoros Islands (Photos)
A Yemenia Airbus SAS A310 crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands earlier today (June 30), with more than 150 people on board, 142 passengers (66 were French citizens) and a crew of 11 Yemenis. The plane was going from Yemen’s capital, San’a, to Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore.
The passengers, most of them Comorians, began their journey from Paris to Sana’a on an Airbus A330 that had a stopover in Marseille. They were transferred to the A310 for the final leg of the flight from Sana’a to the Comoros, the airline said. The A310 that crashed had been barred from use in France after a 2007 inspection by French officials.
Yemeni officials said the plane crashed in stormy weather. Initial blame is being put on bad weather, with air officials in the Comoros Islands reporting strong winds of 38mph, gusting to 70mph.
When rescue and search teams arrived they found a number of bodies floating in the water and were able to rescue a toddler still alive. The little boy is the only survivor of this horrible plane crash, the second involving a Airbus in a month. An Air France Airbus A330-200 en route to Paris from Rio de Janeiro crashed into the Atlantic (June 1), killing all 228 people on board.
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i was one of cabin crew working before in yemen airways and lost my friends one of them was my best friend most of the plane of yemenia ar damaged but what to do thw chairman knows every thing but he enforce the captain to opperate the plane other way they will be stoped from flying the next day any how i just wana inform all the word and am sure the the plane crashed in morroni it was mistake of france millitery they expodete buy fuslage but the france paid yamania to keep secret and the prove for what am saying yamania now buy 10 airbus and they ar not stopin from fliying to europe .