Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Yemeni Airbus A310 plane crashes in Indian Ocean with 153 on board

Airbus disaster strikes again. 153 passengers vanished when an Yemeni jet plunged into the waters of the Indian Ocean. The Yemeni airliner, an Airbus A310 model was en route from Sanaa (Yemen's capital) to Moroni (Comoros island's capital) and crashed about one hour before reaching the destination. The Yemen's authorities declared that most of the travellers were Comorans. The duration of the flight was supposed to be about 4.5 hours to cover the 2900 km between Yemen and Comoros.The Comoran officials are freightened because they do not have sea rescue resources. There is no exact information on fate of Yemeni A310 flight.
Another air disaster that rocked the area took place in 1996 when an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed off the coast of Comoros after being hijacked.
Update1: Flight 626 crashed while landing procedure near Hahaya Airport (Comoros). The plane made an U-turn before coming down into the sea. A surveillance plane spotted debris of the Airbus A310-300 and amazingly rescuers found one child alive from Yemeni flight 626. The jet was carrying 142 passengers and 11 crew aboard.
French officials said that 66 passengers on board Yemeni IY626 flight were french nationals.
Update2: Baya Bakari, a 13-years-old girls was the only survivor of Yemeni flight 626 crash. The teenager was recovered 2 hours after the crash among the dead bodies and the debris of the plane. Despite the violent crash, the girl escaped with minor injuries and she said that "did not feel anything". Now she is in the hospital and there is no danger threatening her life. The search teams managed to find one of the black box flight recorders of the Yemenia crashed plane. The signal coming from the black box was spotted about 40 km away from Grande Comore and at the moment it is still unknown if it was found the Flight Data Recorder or the Cockpit Voice Recorder. The search operation is still under way.
Yemenia Flight 626 crash report-CNN

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