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| Child survives Yemeni plane crash | Child survives Yemeni plane crash |
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| A five-year-old child has been found alive, hours after a Yemeni airliner crashed in the Indian Ocean with more than 150 people on board. | A five-year-old child has been found alive, hours after a Yemeni airliner crashed in the Indian Ocean with more than 150 people on board. |
| Some bodies have also been recovered from the wreckage of the plane. | Some bodies have also been recovered from the wreckage of the plane. |
| The Yemenia Airbus 310 flight IY626 was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, but many passengers on the plane began their journey in France. | The Yemenia Airbus 310 flight IY626 was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, but many passengers on the plane began their journey in France. |
| The EU voiced concern about Yemenia's safety and proposed a world blacklist of those carriers deemed unsafe. | The EU voiced concern about Yemenia's safety and proposed 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". | |
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| 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. | |
| 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 board20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people12 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 | 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 board20 May: An Indonesian army C-130 Hercules transport plane crashes into a village on eastern Java, killing at least 97 people12 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 |
| Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters that the plane had undergone a thorough inspection and conformed to international standards. | Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters that the plane had undergone a thorough inspection and conformed to international standards. |
| 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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. | 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 | 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 | 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. | 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. | 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 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) northwest of Madagascar in the Mozambique channel. | The three Comoros islands are about 300km (190 miles) northwest 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. | "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. | 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. | 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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