Yemenia plane crash

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Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean

A Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago, officials there say.

"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," the Comoros vice-president told Reuters news agency.



The plane belonged to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air, he said.

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

Vice-president Idi Nadhoim, speaking from the airport at the main island's capital Moroni, said the accident happened early on Tuesday.

The exact location of the plane was not immediately known.

The details of the flight are also unknown, but there was a flight from Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, due about 0230 (0030 BST). That flight was a connecting flight from Paris.

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




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Damn that sucks ass... Was it an Airbus again?

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Originally Posted by Fern~Fern*

Damn that sucks ass... Was it an Airbus again?

yes, an A310...

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Yemeni plane crashes with 150 aboard

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*Plane crashes in Indian Ocean near Comoros, official says
*Airbus A310 was en route from Yemen's capital Sanaa
*Aircraft, from the national airline Yemenia, was en route to Comoros

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(CNN) -- A Yemeni airliner with 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, an aviation official in Yemen's capital said Tuesday.


An Airbus 310 like the one pictured has crashed while on the way to the capital of Comoros.

The aircraft, from the national airline Yemenia, was en route to Comoros when it crashed about an hour from its destination, an airline official said. There was no immediate news of the fate of those on board.

The Airbus A310 was en route from Yemen's capital Sanaa to Moroni, the capital of Comoros, and most of the passengers were Comoran, an official at Sanaa's international airport said. Moroni is about 2,900 kilometers (1,800 miles) south of Yemen, off the east coast of Africa.

"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," Comoros Vice President Idi Nadhoim told Reuters.


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Another mechanical failure, possibly?

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Yemeni plane crashes off Comoros, 150 on board

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By Ahmed Ali Amir

MORONI (Reuters) - An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros Tuesday, a senior government official said.

"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters from the airport at the main island's capital Moroni.

Nadhoim said the accident happened in the early hours of Tuesday, but could not give any more details.

"There is a crash, there is a crash in the sea," said an unnamed official who answered the phone in the Yemenia office in Moroni. He declined further comment.

An airline official in Yemen declined to comment.

Yemenia, which is 51 percent owned by the Yemeni government and 49 percent owned by the Saudi Arabian government, flies to Moroni, according to flight schedules on its Web site.

1996 CRASH

Yemenia's fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s, four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s, according to the site.

The location of the crash was not immediately known, but a medical worker in the town of Mitsamiouli, on the main island Grande Comore, said he had been called into the local hospital.

"They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed," he told Reuters.

A Comoran police source said the plane was believed to have come down in the sea. "We really have no sea rescue capabilities," he said.

The Comoros covers three small volcanic islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli, in the Mozambique channel, 300 km (190 miles) northwest of Madagascar and a similar distance east of the African mainland.

A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the sea off the Comoros islands in 1996, killing 125 of 175 passengers and crew

(Reporting by Ahmed Ali Amir; Additional reporting by Richard Lough in Antananarivo; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne and David Clarke; Editing by Jon Hemming)




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This is sad news. Whenever I get into a large plane it seems almost impossible that something of that size can crash but they do.

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Unfortunately, these things happen...

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Se estrella avión de Yemen rumbo a las Comoros
1 hora, 47 minutos


SAN'A, Yemen (AP) - Un avión de la línea aérea nacional de Yemen en ruta a las islas Comoros en el Océano Indico cayó al mar, indicó un funcionario aeroportuario yemení.


Se desconocen el número de personas a bordo de la nave de Yemenia Air y las causas del accidente.


El funcionario, quien pidió guardar el anonimato porque no está autorizado a hablar con la prensa, dijo el martes que se cree que la mayoría de los pasajeros a bordo del Airbus 310 eran habitantes de las Comoros que regresaban de París.


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Any pix of the livery?

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Any pix of the livery?

Sure, here is one of those A310 of Yemenia... I hope it wasn't this one...

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Avión se estrella en Comoras, 150 personas a bordo
1 hora, 27 minutos


Por Ahmed Ali Amir


MORONI (Reuters) - Un avión perteneciente a la línea aérea estatal de Yemen, Yemenia, se estrelló en el archipiélago de las Comoras del Océano Indico con 150 personas a bordo, dijo el martes un funcionario del Gobierno de alto rango.


"No sabemos si hay algún sobreviviente entre las 150 personas en el avión", dijo a Reuters el vicepresidente de Comoras, Idi Nadhoim, desde el aeropuerto en la capital de la isla.


Nadhoim sostuvo que el accidente sucedió en las primeras horas del martes, pero no pudo dar más detalles.


"Hubo un accidente, hubo un accidente en el mar", dijo un funcionario no identificado que respondió el teléfono en la oficina de Yemenia en Moroni. Declinó ofrecer comentarios adicionales.


Un funcionario de la aerolínea en Yemen declinó hacer comentarios.


Yemenia, que es controlada en un 51 por ciento por el Gobierno yemení y en un 49 por ciento por el Gobierno de Arabia Saudita, vuela con destino a Moroni, de acuerdo a programas de vuelo de su sitio web.


ACCIDENTE EN 1996


La flota de Yemenia incluye dos Airbus 330-200, cuatro Airbus 310-300 y cuatro Boeing 737-800, de acuerdo a su sitio web oficial.


Aún no se conocía la ubicación de la tragedia, pero un trabajador médico en la ciudad de Mitsamiouli, en la principal isla de Gran Comora, dijo que había sido llamado al hospital.


"Recién me llamaron para que venga al hospital. Dijeron que un avión se había estrellado", dijo a Reuters.


Una fuente de la policía de Comoras dijo que se creía que el avión había caído en el mar. "Realmente no tenemos capacidades de rescate", agregó.


Las Comoras están conformadas por tres islas volcánicas, Gran Comora, Anjouan y Moheli, en el canal de Mozambique, 300 kilómetros (190 millas) al noroeste de Madagascar y a una distancia similar al este del continente africano.


Un Boeing 767 de Ethiopian Airlines en poder de secuestradores cayó al mar cerca de las Comoras en 1996, provocando la muerte de 125 de su 175 pasajeros y tripulantes.


(Reporte de Ahmed Ali Amir; Reporte adicional de Richard Lough en Antananarivo; Escrito por Andrew Cawthorne y David Clarke; Editado en Español por Juana Casas/Marion Giraldo)



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The Guardian, June 30 2009 :

France found faults with crashed Yemeni plane

PARIS (AP) France's transport minister says French aviation inspectors found a "number of faults" during a 2007 inspection of a plane that has crashed in the Indian Ocean.

The passenger jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed Tuesday as it tried to land during heavy wind on the island nation of Comoros.

Dominique Bussereau said on France's i-Tele television Tuesday that the Airbus A310 was inspected by France's civil aviation agency DGAC in 2007 and "they noticed a certain number of faults."

He says the plane had not returned to French air space since.

He says the airline was not on any European black lists but "was subject to stricter surveillance on our part" and was scheduled for an upcoming interview with European Union safety officials.

THIS IS A BREAKING NEWS UPDATE. Check back soon for further information. AP's earlier story is below.

SAN'A, Yemen (AP) — A passenger jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as it tried to land during heavy wind on the island nation of Comoros, a Yemeni aviation official said.

Bodies were spotted floating off the coast and a Comoros police official said three had been recovered so far. There was no word on survivors.

Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said there were 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board when the plane, which had set off from the Yemeni capital of San'a, went down before landing in Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore.

The majority of the passengers were from the Comoros islands, returning home from Paris, he said. Those on board included families with children and there were at least three babies on board, he added.

French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner said in a statement that 66 of the passengers were French. He said French aviation and naval support was heading to help in search operations at the Comoros government's request.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy "expressed his deep emotion" about the accident and asked the French military to help in the rescue operation, particularly from the French islands of Mayotte and Reunion, according to a statement from his office.

Abdul Qader, the Yemeni official, said bodies have been spotted floating off the archipelago and that a rescue and search effort was under way. He said Yemeni, French and Comoron officials were coordinating to investigate the plane crash.

"They spotted an oil spill 16 or 17 miles in the Ocean off the (Moroni) airport," Abdul Qader said, adding that three Comoron boats are searching for the debris and bodies. "The wind speed was 61 kilometers per hour as the plane was landing."

Rachida Abdullah, a police immigration officer who works at the operations center in the Comoros, told The Associated Press that the bodies of three Comoros nationals were recovered along with debris from the plane. She said the search was ongoing since 4 a.m. Tuesday.

Kouchner expressed "sincere condolences" and said the French Embassy in Moroni was "fully mobilized" to help families. The French junior minister for cooperation, Alain Joyandet, is heading Tuesday to Moroni, the statement said.

The Comoros is an archipelago of three main islands situated about 1,800 miles (2,900 kilometer) south of Yemen, between Africa's southeastern coast and Madagascar.

Christophe Prazuck, French military spokesman, says that patrol boat, the Rieuse and fregate Nivose, a reconnaissance ship, were being sent to crash site as well as Transall, a military transport plane.

The French were sending divers as well as medical personnel on the plane, he said.

On the Indian Ocean island of Ile de la Reunion, an official statement from the French prefecture said the crash occurred at 0250 GMT Tuesday.

In Paris, a crisis cell was set up at Charles de Gaulle airport.

According to Paris Airports press service, 67 of the passengers on board the Airbus 310 had flown from France on Monday on an Airbus 330. Most of them were from the French city of Marseille, which has a large Comoros community and where the plane briefly landed to pick up more crew and passengers.

Another crisis cell has been established in Marseille, according to Stephane Salord, the consul general of the Comoros in the Provence-Alps-Cote d'Azur region of France.

"There is considerable dismay," Salord said. "These are families that, each year on the eve of summer, leave Marseille and the region to rejoin their families in the Comoros and spend their holidays."

In France, this week is the start of annual summer school vacations.

An Airbus statement said the plane that crashed went into service 19 years ago, in 1990, and had accumulated 51,900 flight hours. It has been operated by Yemenia (Yemen Airways) since 1999.

Airbus identifies the plane's serial number as 535, and said it was sending a team of specialists to the Comoros.

The A310-300 is a twin-engine widebody jet that can seat up to 220 passengers. There are 214 A310s in service worldwide with 41 operators.

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Rest in Peace to all the victims and condolences to their families

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It was this one, 7O-ADJ. Today was her last takeoff.

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Expat Comorans say they warned about crash airline

MARSEILLE, France June 30 (Reuters) - Expatriate Comorans, mourning Tuesday's crash of an Airbus plane off their Indian Ocean archipelago, said they had complained to French authorities last week about the Yemeni operator's "rubbish" aircraft and poor security.

Members of an association created in France several years ago to complain about travelling conditions to the Comoros accused the Yemenia airline of low standards.

"The accident was predictable, these are planes that do not meet international standards. Yemenia was the cheapest of all the 'rubbish companies' with a near-monopoly on this destination," said Farid Soilihi, president of the association "SOS-Voyages to the Comoros".

No immediate response was available from the airline to Soilihi's remarks, but Yemen's transport minister said the plane that crashed had been thoroughly checked in May under Airbus supervision.

"It was a comprehensive inspection carried out in Yemen ... with experts from Airbus," Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters. "It was in line with international standards."

The Airbus A310-300 plane crashed with 153 people on board, including 66 French. Many of them were families from France's large Comoran community who were travelling home for the holidays.

Soilihi said he had sent a letter last week to the French foreign, interior and transport ministers warning them of the association's concerns about the airline.

He had also organised a protest for Aug. 11 at the Paris airport where many boarded the doomed plane.

"These are rubbish planes. There are no seatbelts, the toilets are blocked, the lockers come undone and the bags fall on the passengers," he said. "There is absolutely no security on board."

French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said faults had been detected during inspections in France in 2007 on the Yemenia A310 aircraft that crashed, and it had been banned from French soil.

The airline had used a different plane, an A330, to pick the passengers up in Paris and Marseille before transferring them to the A310-300 in the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

Families arriving at the airport in Marseille, where there is a large Comoran community, were met by Comoros consul Stephane Salord. He said he had long heard complaints about journeys that were "too long, too expensive, too risky", and it was very regrettable that direct flights had been been stopped for reasons of profitability.

"The Comorans save up for several months in the year to go to Comoros with their families. In this plane there were entire families, parents, children, elders who were with them," he said.

"There is a lot of anger and emotion today....It's not because we're a developing country that we have to be dependent on companies that do not respect international norms."

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France had banned Comoros crash plane in 2007

PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) - France banned the Yemenia A310-300 Airbus that crashed near Comoros on Tuesday from French soil after faults were found in a test in 2007, Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said.

He said he was investigating whether picking up passengers in France in one plane and then transferring them to a possibly less safe one in another location was allowable.

"A few years ago we excluded this plane from national soil because we considered that it had a number of irregularities," Bussereau told parliament.

"The question we are asking ... is whether you can collect people in a normal way on French territory and then put them in a plane that does not ensure their security. We do not want this to happen again."

Faults were detected in France in 2007 on the A310.

Yemen's transport minister said the aircraft had undergone a thorough inspection in May under Airbus supervision.

"It was a comprehensive inspection carried out in Yemen ... with experts from Airbus," Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters by telephone from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

Many of the passengers began their journey in Paris or Marseille aboard a different Yemenia plane, an A330. They switched to the A310 in Sanaa.

Bussereau had said in an early morning radio interview that the plane was not at fault in the crash.

A European Commission official said the 2007 examination of the A310 had sparked an inquiry into Yemenia's safety record.

And the European Aviation Safety Agency said the EU had suspended permission for Yemenia to service EU-registered planes last February after it failed a set of audit inspections.

Although Yemenia operated the A310, it was owned by International Lease Finance Corp. It was registered in Yemen.

FRENCH INVESTIGATORS

The aircraft crashed into the sea with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean island of Grande Comore on Tuesday, officials said.

France's BEA air accident board said it was sending a team of investigators accompanied by Airbus experts to the site.

It was the second crash this month involving an Airbus aircraft and a large numbers of French passengers.

The BEA is due to publish a preliminary report on Thursday on the loss of an Air France A330-200 on June 1. The plane crashed during an Atlantic storm while en route from Brazil to Paris, killing all 228 people on board.

Yemenia also operates two leased A330-200s.

In 2007 it placed an order for 10 next-generation Airbus A350-800 wide-body jets, worth $2 billion at list prices, to jumpstart what it described as "ambitious growth plans".

Airbus said the crashed A310 was built in 1990 and had been operated by Yemenia since October 1999.

It was one of four operated by the same airline, two of which were leased, according to Airbus order data.

The aircraft had accumulated approximately 51,900 flight hours in some 17,300 flights, the planemaker said.

Its engines were built by Pratt and Whitney, a unit of U.S. conglomerate United Technologies.

Designed in the late 1970s and early 1980s, the A310 was the second model developed by Airbus -- then a four-nation plane building consortium and now fully owned by European aerospace group EADS.

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EU halted Yemenia maintenance of European jets in Feb

PARIS, June 30 (Reuters) - The European Union suspended permission for Yemenia to maintain EU-registered planes in February after it failed a set of audit inspections, the EU's aviation safety agency told Reuters on Tuesday.

The move would not have affected the Airbus A310 plane which crashed off the Comoros islands on Tuesday since that aircraft was registered in Yemen. But it provides further evidence of European concerns over the airline's operations after the EU Commission said the plane which crashed had sparked an EU inquiry two years ago.

Yemen said its planes are thoroughly maintained.

The European Aviation Safety Agency, which is responsible for certifying maintenance operations outside the 27-nation bloc, granted Yemenia the right to maintain EU-registered aircraft in 2006 but suspended it in February this year, a spokeswoman said.

"These approvals are for maintenance organisations located outside the EU, allowing them to maintain aircraft registered in the EU," the spokeswoman for the Cologne-based agency said.

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France 'banned Yemen crash plane'



Yemeni authorities said the plane conformed to international standards

A Yemeni plane which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France because of "irregularities", the French transport minister has said.

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

One child is said to have been rescued from the ocean, the only known survivor from the 153 people on board.

The plane was heading from Yemen to the Comoros islands, but many on board began their journey in France.

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

The crash was the second involving an Airbus aircraft in recent weeks. 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.

That tragedy also involved large numbers of French citizens.

'Never again'

In Paris, Mr Bussereau told legislators that the Yemenia plane which crashed was not permitted to fly into France, and raised concerns about the transfer of passengers from a plane classed as safe to one which crashed into the ocean.


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.


FLIGHT IY626
*Airbus A310-300 aircraft, built in 1990
*153 people on board, including 66 French nationals
*Flight originated in Paris, using modern Airbus A330-200
*Stopped in Marseille before flying to Sanaa
*Passengers moved to A310-300
*Stopover in Djibouti

> Comorans 'warned of flight safety'
> 'We are praying for a miracle'
> In pictures: Yemeni plane crash
> Timeline of Flight IY626


"The question we are asking... is whether you can collect people in a normal way on French territory and then put them in a plane that does not ensure their security. We do not want this to happen again."

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 news agency that the plane had recently undergone a thorough inspection overseen by Airbus and conformed to international standards.

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 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.

Anger and grief

Reports say the plane was due in the Comoros capital, Moroni, about 0230 (2330GMT on Monday). Most of the passengers had travelled to Sanaa from Paris or Marseille on a different aircraft.

The flight 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. Some 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.

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
> EU wants world blacklist
> Air disasters timeline

A search is under way, with the French military assisting with the operation, which is battling strong winds and high seas.

Initial reports said that a five-year-old child was found alive in the ocean, but later information suggested the child may have been older.

Five bodies and some wreckage of the plane have also been recovered.

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

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, with key politicians returning to the Comoros from overseas 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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Timeline of Flight IY626




A Yemenia airliner with more than 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean en route for the Comoros islands.

Here is a chronology of events leading up to the crash and the search efforts for the plane and passengers.


Tuesday 30 June
0907 GMT: News agencies, citing a Yemenia official, report that a survivor has been found alive and rescued from the sea off the Comoros island. Later reports confirm that the survivor is a child.

0803 GMT: France's transport minister is reported as telling French media that the jet that crashed was being closely monitored by French authorities. Dominique Bussereau said the plane had not flown in French airspace after "numerous faults had been noted" with the plane during a routine inspection in 2007.

0504 GMT: Yemenia official confirms that one of the carrrier's planes has been lost, news agencies report.

0229 GMT: First reports of a plane crash hit the news agency wires.


Monday 29 June
2251 GMT: Contact is lost with the flight shortly after it had made one attempt at landing at Moroni International airport.

1845 GMT: Yemenia flight IY626 leaves Sanaa en route to Moroni via Djibouti.

Later Monday: Flight departs Marseille with around 100 passengers and flies to Sanaa. In the Yemen airport, passengers from various Arab states join the flight which transfers to a different plane, an Airbus A310.

Monday morning: A Yemenia Airbus A330-200 leaves Paris, bound for Marseille. On board are 67 passengers who will transfer to the ill-fated Yemenia Airbus that was to crash a few hours later.




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