Whose Airbus crashes off Comoros with 153 aboard ?
DZAEUDZI, Comoros – A passenger jet carrying 153 people from Yemen crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said, but there was no word on other survivors. The Yemeni Airbus 310 was flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen. Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Sixty-six on board were French nationals. The rescued child was 5 years old and the flight also had at least three babies, Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said. Three bodies from the flight were retrieved along with debris from the plane, according to Comoros immigrations officer Rachida Abdullah. Qader said it was too early to speculate on the cause and the flight data recorder had not been found. “The weather was very bad … the wind was very strong,” he said, adding the windy conditions were hamper
June 30, 2009 – 10:09PM A Yemeni Airbus carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came into land in the Comoros islands early on Tuesday but rescuers managed to pull a child survivor from the water, officials said. It was the second time in less than a month that an Airbus has crashed. This time French authorities said the Yemeni carrier had been under surveillance and that problems had been reported with the jet. Bodies and wreckage from the Yemeni airline flight were spotted in the Indian Ocean near Moroni, capital of the island archipelago, aviation officials said. But rescuers managed to pull a child from the water, one of the only survivors among the 142 passengers and 11 crew on Flight IY 626, a surgeon at the Moroni hospital told AFP. Issa Ben Imani said the child was being taken ashore and on to hospital.
DZAEUDZI, Comoros – A passenger jet carrying 153 people from Yemen crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said, but there was no word on other survivors. The Yemeni Airbus 310 was flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen. Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Sixty-six on board were French nationals. The rescued child was 5 years old and the flight also had at least three babies, Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said. Three bodies from the flight were retrieved along with debris from the plane, according to Comoros immigrations officer Rachida Abdullah. Qader said it was too early to speculate on the cause and the flight data recorder had not been found. “The weather was very bad … the wind was very strong,” he said, adding the windy conditions were hamper
June 30, 2009 – 10:09PM A Yemeni Airbus carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came into land in the Comoros islands early on Tuesday but rescuers managed to pull a child survivor from the water, officials said. It was the second time in less than a month that an Airbus has crashed. This time French authorities said the Yemeni carrier had been under surveillance and that problems had been reported with the jet. Bodies and wreckage from the Yemeni airline flight were spotted in the Indian Ocean near Moroni, capital of the island archipelago, aviation officials said. But rescuers managed to pull a child from the water, one of the only survivors among the 142 passengers and 11 crew on Flight IY 626, a surgeon at the Moroni hospital told AFP. Issa Ben Imani said the child was being taken ashore and on to hospital. Sources: http:/
