Yemen Airline Crashed Photos at Comoros Islands

yemen-airline-crashed-photos-at-comoros-islands A Yemeni jet crashed at Comoros Islands while trying to land at Hahaya Airport in Comoros’ capital, Moroni. The Yemen Airline crashed with 150 people on board. No report yet if there are any survivors from the ill-fated Airbus A310. The plane came crashing into the Indian Ocean near Comoros Islands. An airline official in Yemen declined to comment. Officials are investigating of what might have caused the plane to crash.

There were 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board when the Airbus A310 crashed.According to airline officials, sixty-six passengers were French nationals and the remainder of passengers were believed to be Comoros citizens returning home.Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Those on board included families with children and there were at least three babies on the flight.

A search plane discovered the debris field and miraculously, a child was recovered among the floating bodies of deceased passengers in the choppy waters of the crash site. The youngster, age 5, was taken to an area hospital and appears to be the sole survivor.

“The weather was very bad … the wind was very strong,” Mohammad Abdul Qader who is Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief said, the weather was very bad in the area with 40 mile an hour(61 kilometers per hour) winds at the time the plane was attempting to land.

A Comoran police source said the plane was believed to have come down in the sea. “We really have no sea rescue capabilities,” he added.

Gen. Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the Airbus 310 crashed in deep waters about 8 nautical miles (9.2 miles) north from the Comoran coast and 18 nautical miles (21 miles) from the Moroni airport.

And on the Indian Ocean island of Ile de la Reunion, an official statement from the French prefecture said the crash occurred at 02:50 GMT Tuesday (10:50 p.m. EDT Monday).

French President Nicolas Sarkozy “expressed his deep emotion” about the accident and asked the French military to help in the rescue operation, particularly from the French islands of Mayotte and Reunion, according to a statement from his office.

It is the second carsh involving an Airbus jet within a month. On May 31, an Airbus A330 operated by Air France ran into thunderstorms after leaving Brazil and crashed into the Atlantic. Fifty-one bodies were recovered from that flight, which was carrying 228 people.

Yemen Airline Crashed Photos at Comoros Islands

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