ANTANANARIVO, July 1 (Xinhua) --
The black box of the Yemeni Airbus A310, which crashed early on Tuesday off the
Comoros, has been located under the Indian Ocean.
A Yemenia airlines Airbus 310-300 taxis
on the tarmac of Charles De Gaulle International Airport in Paris in this
July 27, 2002 file photo. (Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo Gallery>>>
Signal from the black box of the crashed IY626 plane
belonging to Yemenia airline was detected around 4:30 p.m. (1330 GMT) 40 km off
Grand Comore, one of the three islands of Comoros.
A French ship, "La rieuse", had already arrived at
the scene around lunch time on Wednesday to begin operations to recover the
black box.
The French secretary of state for cooperation said
the French Bureau for Investigation and Analysis would begin work and that the
black box would tell the truth.
A total of 153 people, including a crew of 11, were
on the Airbus A310-300 plane, belonging to Yemani state carrier Yemenia Air,
which was on route from Yemen's capital Sanaa to Moroni, the capital of Comoros.
The cause is linked to bad weather, conditions of access
to the Comorian airports and the unfavorable conditions of the Yemeni
airline.
France's Transport Minister Dominique
Bussereau (L) speaks to the media as he leaves the crisis centre at
Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris June 30, 2009. The airline said one
survivor had been rescued from the sea.(Xinhua/Reuters Photo) Photo
Gallery>>>
SANAA, July 1 (Xinhua) -- After rescuers found a child
survivor who was pulled alive from the sea, the cause of the crash of an Yemeni
jetliner with more than 150 people on board off Comoran coasts remains elusive.
The jetliner, an Airbus A310, crashed early Tuesday
into the Indian Ocean as it approached the airport on the Comoros islands in
heavy winds and bad weather. The plane was carrying 153 people -- 142 passengers
and a crew of 11.
France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said
on Europe 1 radio Tuesday that the plane was "not at fault" in the crash. "It
has nothing to do with the plane." Full story
BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhuanet) -- A
child was rescued from the site where a Yemeni airliner crashed into the Indian
Ocean off the Comoros Islands Tuesday. Three bodies have also been retrieved,
along with debris from the plane. Full story
ANTANANARIVO, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Bodies and debris
from a Yemeni flight, which crashed about 8 to 12 km off Comoros early on
Tuesday morning, have reportedly been found.
Relatives and friends of passengers
aboard the Airbus flight A310-300 from Yemen arrive at a crisis center at
Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, June 30, 2009. (Xinhua/Reuters
Photo) Photo
Gallery>>>
"A research aircraft found some debris of the plane
near the supposed area of the sea," a senior official of the Agency for Safety
of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar Ibrahim Kassim said in Moroni,
capital of Comoros. Full story
SANA'A, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A Yemeni airliner with more
than 150 people on board crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean
on Tuesday, an employee working at Yemen's airport control tower confirmed with
Xinhua.
The employee said on condition of anonymity that an Airbus
A310 belonging to Yemenia Air crashed with 150 people on board some 15 minutes
before its landing in Moroni, capital of Comoros. Full story
