Second Airbus crash in one month :: 02/07/2009 :: Airport Parking News
A Yemenia Airway Airbus A310-300 has crashed in the Indian Ocean with 153 people on board
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Second Airbus crash in one month
Thursday, 2nd July 2009
The incident occurred as the aircraft was approaching its destination in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros in severe weather conditions early on Tuesday, according to official comments.
Some bodies were recovered not long after the crash, the undersecretary of Yemen’s aviation authority, Abdul-Rahman Abdul-Qader, reported. An official from the airline said that one young girl survived the crash and had been rescued from the sea.
According to the Paris airports authority, 66 French nationals were on board the Yemenia Airway flights, which was on its final leg of the service from Paris and Marseille to Yemen and on to Comoros.
Two French military planes and one ship were deployed from the islands of Mayotte and Reunion in the Indian Ocean to conduct search operations.
Ibrahim Kassim, an air security official with ASECNA, said: “The planes have seen debris at the supposed point of impact.”
The incident was the second involving an Airbus plane crashing into the sea this month, after and Air France Airbus A330-200 plunged into the Atlantic on 1 June, killing all 228 people on board.
In Sanaa, Yemen, passengers flying on to Comoros boarded an Airbus A310 for the final leg of the flight, and it was that plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean.
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