Another Plane Crash In Ocean

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Another Plane Crash In Ocean
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Tue, 06-30-2009 - 12:07am

This is not good.  The reason for the crash is unknown, but it is an Airbus:


http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/06/29/yemen.plane.crash/index.html


Yemeni plane crashes with 154 aboard


updated 51 minutes ago

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  • Plane crashes in Indian Ocean near Comoros, official says

  • Airbus A310 was en route from Yemen's capital Sanaa

  • Aircraft, from the national airline Yemenia, was en route to Comoros

  • (CNN) -- A Yemeni jetliner with more than 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, aviation officials in Yemen said Tuesday.


    The jet was en route to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, from Yemen's capital Sanaa when it crashed about an hour before reaching its destination, officials from the national airline Yemenia said. There was no immediate news of the fate of those on board.


    Yemenia Flight 626 left Sanaa at 9:30 p.m. for what was expected to be a 4½-hour flight. The airline has three regular flights per week to Moroni, off the east coast of Africa about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) south of Yemen.


    Most of the 143 passengers aboard the Airbus A310 were Comoran, an official at Sanaa's international airport said. The aircraft also carried a crew of 11, for a total of 154 people on board.


    There has been no indication of foul play behind the crash, the officials said.


    The crash is the second involving an Airbus jet in a month. On June 1, an Air France Airbus A330 crashed off Brazil while en route from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, to Paris, France. All 228 aboard are presumed dead. The cause remains under investigation.>>>


     

     

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    Registered: 02-05-2009
    Tue, 06-30-2009 - 6:49am

    http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/top/all/6504151.html
    Child rescued in jet crash off Indian Ocean island


    CAIRO — A Comoros police official says a child has been rescued from the sea in the Airbus 310 crash off the Indian Ocean island.


    Immigrations officer with the Comoros operations, Rachida Abdullah, says a toddler was rescued from the crash site Tuesday.


    Abdullah told The Associated Press that three bodies have also been retrieved, along with debris from the plane, but that no other survivors have been recovered so far.


    She said the rescue and search operation is going on since 4 a.m. Tuesday.


    The Yemeni Airbus 310 crashed with 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board before landing in Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore, early on Tuesday.


    Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.

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    Registered: 03-18-2000
    Tue, 06-30-2009 - 8:24am

    Faults found on Comoros crash plane in 2007-France


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    http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLU32617720090630


    PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) - Faults were detected in France in 2007 on the Yemenia A310-300 plane that crashed near Comoros on Tuesday and the airline was under scrutiny, French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said.


    However, Yemen's transport minister said the aircraft had undergone a thorough inspection in May under Airbus supervision.


    "It was a comprehensive inspection carried out in Yemen ... with experts from Airbus," Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters by telephone from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.


    Bussereau told the I-tele television channel that faults were discovered when the plane was inspected in 2007 by the DGAC (French transport authorities) and that the plane had not returned to France since then.


    "The company was not on the blacklist but was subject to stricter checks on our part, and was due to be interviewed shortly by the European Union's safety committee," he said.


    A European Commission official said the crashed plane had sparked an inquiry into the Yemenia airline's safety record. The EC could not confirm whether there were plans by the EU's air safety committee to interview Yemenia.


    Many of the passengers began their journey in Paris Marseille aboard a different Yemenia plane, an A330. They switched to the A310-300 in Sanaa.


    Bussereau had said in an earlier interview on the radio that the plane was not at fault in the crash.



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    The Airbus A310-300 with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said.

     


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    Registered: 03-18-2000
    Wed, 07-01-2009 - 7:42am
    Teen plane crash survivor 'didn't feel a thing'
  • French teenager recovering in hospital after surviving plane crash off Comoros islands

  • 13-year-old, who lives in Marseille, escaped without serious injuries

  • Girl was spotted in rough sea among bodies and plane debris in darkness

  • http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/01/yemen.plane.survivor/

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    Registered: 03-18-2000
    Wed, 07-01-2009 - 7:56am

    France had banned Yemeni crash plane


    A Yemeni passenger jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board on Monday night had been banned from flying in France since 2007, the French government said on Tuesday.



    Dominique Bussereau, French transport minister, said yesterday: “A few years ago we excluded this plane from national soil because we considered that it had a number of irregularities in its technical equipment.”



    Khaled al-Wazir, Yemen’s transport minister, told Agence France Presse that the plane had been checked in May and conformed to international standards. ”The aircraft was checked in May 2009. It flies frequently to Europe and had flown to London last week,” he said.


    Yemenia Air said the crash was due to the stormy weather and had nothing to do with the aircraft


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