SANA'A, July 4 (Xinhua) -- A Yemeni official Saturday denied the reports about suspension of all Yemenia Air flights to Comoros following Tuesday's air crash of its Airbus A310 off the Comoran coast near the capital of Moroni.

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>>>

    Mohamed Abdel Qadir, a senior civil aviation official, told Xinhua that Yemenia flights to Comoros will continue according to schedule. The company is only to suspend its flights to Marseilles after families of the air crash victims staged demonstrations in front of its headquarters in the French city.

    However, the official did not give a date for resuming flights to Marseilles.

    Yemenia flights to other French cities and European countries will continue, He added.

    Earlier reports said Yemenia Air suspended all flights to Comoros.

    The Airbus A310 of Yemenia Air, on the way from Yemeni capital of Sana'a to Moroni, crashed in the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board half an hour before reaching its destination in Comoros. Only a 14-year-old French girl survived.

    Rescue teams have succeeded on Wednesday to locate one of the plane's two black boxes.

    The Yemenia Air is the national airline of Yemen, with 51 percent share held by the Yemeni government and 49 percent by the Saudi government.

Yemenia Airways could face blacklist: France

    PARIS, July 3 (Xinhua) -- France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau warned on Friday that Yemenia Airways could be on the blacklist of banned airlines in Europe unless it makes "very big efforts."

    "If it does not want to go on the blacklist, Yemenia Airways will have to make big efforts, very big efforts," Bussereau told RTL radio, adding that the company was under strict observation.  Full story

Causes of Yemeni air crash yet to be determined

    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.

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>>>

    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. Full story