Yemeni plane's wreckage found
YemenOnline- June, 30- The Air Aviation Safety Agency in Africa and Madagascar, a body responsible for aviation safety in Francophone Africa, said that the search and rescue planes found the Yemeni airbus wreckage, which crashed in the Indian Ocean off the coast of the Comoros. Reuters quoted Ibrahim Qasem, an agency official at Moroni airport, in Comoros as saying "the planes saw the aircraft wreckage at the site of the alleged crash, and do not yet know the fate of the passengers.A Yemeni government official announced Thursday that a Yemeni governmental airliner crashed in the Comoros Archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 passengers on board. Reports said that a Sana'a flight was scheduled at 02:30 local time (11.30GMT)The Yemeni official said that most of the passengers on board the airbus 310 plane were Comorian citizens returning from Paris.A civil aviation authority official in Comoros told BBC that the aircraft was several kilometers from the airport when it crashed, adding that weather conditions were not good for several days. The official explained that some of the passengers were French and Comorian nationals.
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