What airline recently had a plane crash in the Comoros Islands?”
Girl, 14, rescued after Yemeni plane crashes in Indian Ocean Search teams recover three bodies after Airbus comes down with more than 150 people on board near Comoros islands Rescuers have found a lone survivor from a Yemenia Air plane that crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands with more than 150 people on board. Initial reports mentioned a five-year old boy, but later ones identified the survivor as a 14-year-old girl. Search teams had also recovered three bodies and debris from the plane, but no other survivors had so far been found, Rachida Abdullah, an immigration officer, said. The Airbus 310 plane was carrying 142 passengers, including at least three babies, and a crew of 11 Yemenis.
From Telegraph: “Yemenia Air plane crash: 150 missing as Paris to Comoros islands flight crashes in Indian Ocean By Richard Spencer in Dubai Published: 7:00AM BST 30 Jun 2009 A Yemenia Air plane flying between Paris, Yemen and the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean has crashed into the sea with French military jets and speedboats now heading a search for the more than 150 people believed missing. Officials confirmed that as well as passengers from the islands, a number of French were on board, inflicting a second major air disaster on the country in a month. Four weeks ago, an Air France jet carrying 228 passengers and crew disappeared over the Atlantic after taking off for Paris from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil. In the latest disaster, an Airbus 310 belonging to Yemenia, Yemen’s national airline, and flying to Moroni, the capital of Grand Comore, fell into the sea a few miles short of its destination. The flight had originally taken off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for Sana’a, Y
