Another airliner crash

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This time in the Indian Ocean.

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

(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.quote>

June was not a good month..

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Wow...

[Deathcat001 8]

is it in the news yet?? 

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Originally posted by: Deathcat001

is it in the news yet?? quote>

..Yes that quote wasn't just made up.

And it looks like they've found a child.. wow.

(CNN) -- A young child has been recovered alive from a Yemeni jet crash in the Indian Ocean, an airline official said Tuesday.

 

The child was the first person found alive from the Yemenia Airways jet, which was carrying more than 150 people en route to the island nation of Comoros from Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

The child was found in the waters and was taken to a hospital, said Captain Abdulkhalek al-Kadi, chairman of Yemenia Airways.

"One child is alive and we hope to find more," the chairman said.

He blamed the crash on bad weather. "It was high seas and windy weather," he said. 

A reconnaissance plane had earlier spotted traces of the Airbus A310-300 in the sea near the town of Mitsamiouli, Comoros Vice President Idi Nadhoim said Tuesday.

"There were no sign of survivors," he said before the child was found. "There are a few bodies floating and there is a lot of debris floating around."

The crash took place as the plane approached the Hahaya airport in Moroni. The plane tried but failed to land and then performed a U-turn before it crashed, Nadhoim said. Officials did not know why the plane could not land, he said. 

There were 142 passengers and 11 crew members aboard, Yemenia Air officials said.

Nadhoim offered another figure, saying there were 147 passengers.

 

Flight 626 left Sanaa at 9:30 p.m. (1830 GMT) for what was expected to be a four-and-a-half-hour flight. The airline has three regular flights a week to Moroni, off the east coast of Africa, about 2,900 km (1,800 miles) south of Yemen.

The crash occurred about 1:30 a.m., Nadhoim said.

Most of the passengers aboard the A310 were Comorans, an official at Sanaa's international airport told CNN.

An official at Charles De Gaulle airport in Paris said there were also 66 French passengers aboard.

There was no indication of foul play behind the crash, the official in Yemen said.

France's transport minister said Yemenia Airways was being monitored by EU authorities and that French inspectors had noted several faults on the jet that crashed, Agence France-Presse reported.quote>

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Another Airbus? wow.

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This really is the "third" major airline disaster in the past 6 months, because if it wasn't for captain sully the same thing would have happened in the hudson. This is really disturbing, i remember after the Air France crash I saw a list of major airline disasters with deathtolls around or above 100, and they were spaced out by years, now they are being spaced out by weeks....Lets hope this is just a fluke.

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I always thought of airbus as a good strong plane company, but i guess no one cares to fix something wrong before it happens

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glad my father just flew back safely

[ironicepitome 0]

christ! im never gonna fly on an airbus, theyre crashin left and right!

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Originally posted by: ironicepitome

christ! im never gonna fly on an airbus, theyre crashin left and right!quote>

Two airplane crashes in one month (Airbus or otherwise) is nothing compared to the amount of airplanes in the sky at any one minute, never mind a single month.

You're still far more likely to be killed in a car, bus or train accident - are you going to stop travelling by these methods too?

Anyway, back on story - very sad but if they've found one survivor, perhaps (let's hope) there's more. 

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France 'banned Yemen crash plane'

Yemeni authorities said the plane conformed to international standards

A Yemeni airline which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France in 2007 because of "irregularities", France's transport minister has said.

Dominique Bussereau told parliament of ongoing concerns about the safety record of the Yemenia Airbus 310.

More than 150 people were on board. A five-year-old child survived and was rescued from the ocean, while some bodies have also been recovered.

The plane flew from Yemen, but many on board began their journey in France.

Most on board had flown on a different Yemenia aircraft from Paris or Marseille before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa, the capital of Yemen.

In Paris, Mr Bussereau told legislators that the Yemenia Airbus 310 which crashed was not permitted to fly into France.

See a map of the plane's route

"A few years ago, we banned this plane from national territory because we believed it presented a certain number of irregularities in its technical equipment," Mr Bussereau told parliament.

However, a spokesman for the airline said poor weather was more likely to have been a factor in the crash than the condition of the plane.

Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer also told Reuters that the plane had undergone a thorough inspection and conformed to international standards.

RECENT AIR CRASHES   1 June: An Air France Airbus plane travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappears in the Atlantic with 228 people on board 20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people 12 February: A plane crashes into a house in Buffalo, New York, killing all 49 people on board and one person on the ground Timeline of air disasters In pictures: Yemeni plane crash Timeline of Flight IY626 EU wants world aviation blacklist

The crash prompted the European Union to highlight its own concerns about Yemenia's safety record, proposing a world blacklist of those carriers deemed unsafe.

The EU already has its own list, and its transport commissioner, Antonio Tajani, said such a list would be a "safety guarantee for all".

Another EU official told Reuters news agency there were concerns about the airline's "incomplete reporting procedure and incomplete follow-up" following 2007 tests on the aircraft that crashed, but that its record was improving.

Reports say the plane was due in the Comoros capital Moroni at about 0230 (2230GMT on Monday). Most of the passengers had travelled to Sanaa from Paris or Marseille on a different aircraft.

The flight on to Moroni, on the island of Njazidja (Grande Comore), was also thought to have made a stop in Djibouti.

There were more than 150 people on board, including three babies and 11 crew.

An airport source told AFP news agency that 66 of the passengers were French, although many are thought to have dual French-Comoran citizenship.

Anxious relatives of passengers wait at Paris airport

This is the second air tragedy this month involving large numbers of French citizens.

On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.

Relatives' anger

Gen Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, French naval commander in the Indian Ocean, said the plane had come down about 15km (eight nautical miles) north of the Comoran coast.

They put us aboard wrecks, they put us aboard coffins, that's where they put us - it's slaughter Relative at Paris airport Ties that bind: Comoros and France

A search is under way, with the French military assisting with the operation.

As well as the rescued child, five bodies and some wreckage of the plane have been recovered.

"The weather conditions were rough; strong wind and high seas," Yemenia official Mohammad al-Sumairi told Reuters news agency.

The three Comoros islands are about 300km (190 miles) north-west of Madagascar in the Mozambique channel.

A resident living near the airport told the BBC that about 100 people were trying to get into the building to find out more information, but without much success.

Radio stations in Moroni have stopped playing music and are broadcasting passages from the Koran as a mark of respect for those killed, a local reporter, Abubacar Omar, told the BBC.

The government had appealed for people to stay calm, he said, and key politicians were returning to the Comoros to take charge of the recovery and rescue operation.

"Everybody here is talking about only one thing - the crash", another local journalist, Abdul Rahman Bar Amir, said.

"There are groups of people huddled everywhere, talking. Nobody seems to know what is going on. All we can do is wait for information.

"Nobody is eating, nobody is drinking. All we are doing is waiting."

In France, relatives also gathered at Paris' Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and at Marseille Marignane airport to wait for news.

Some expressed anger at the state of the airline's planes.

"They put us aboard wrecks, they put us aboard coffins. That's where they put us. It's slaughter. It's slaughter," one relative in Paris told French TV.

The airline Yemenia is 51% owned by the Yemeni government and 49% by the Saudi government.

In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian airliner came down in the same area - most of the 175 passengers and crew were killed.

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What's funny is my French textbook had an article in french about Airbuses crashing.

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Originally posted by: ironicepitome

christ! im never gonna fly on an airbus, theyre crashin left and right!quote>

Yeah, becuase its totally airbusses fault that whoever bought their aircraft isn't doing proper maintence.