A child has been found alive following the Yemin Air crash

A Yemeni airliner with more than 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands.

Some bodies have been found and a child rescued alive, officials from the carrier, Yemenia, said.

The Airbus 310 flight IY626 was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa, but many passengers on the plane began their journey in France.

Gen Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, French naval commander in the Indian Ocean, said the plane came down about 15 km (eight nautical miles) north of the Comoran coast.

A search is under way, with the French military assisting with the operation.

As well as the rescued child, three bodies and some wreckage of the plane have been recovered.

French military personnel leave Reunion to join rescue operation
French military are assisting with the search operation

"The weather conditions were rough; strong wind and high seas," Yemenia official Mohammad al-Sumairi told Reuters news agency.


Relatives also gathered at Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and Marseille Marignane airport to wait for news, some expressing 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.
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I am so happy they found that child. Sorry for any other victims.

I know it's just a turn of phrase, but it bothers me that there are people who really mean it. Anyone who thanks God for the survival of one passenger ought also to condemn him for killing the other 150.

Cheers.

Maybe something to do with body weight ?

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2009/06/200963094817312298.html
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A 14-year-old girl has survived after a Yemeni airliner with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean.

The girl was plucked alive from the ocean after the Airbus A310-300 went down in stormy weather as it tried to land in the Comoros capital, Moroni, in the early hours on Tuesday.

"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical centre opened for survivors, told Reuters.

Some bodies have been found and there are no reports of other survivors, said officials from the air carrier, Yemenia, on Tuesday.

The airport's control tower lost contact with the plane shortly after receiving notification that it was coming in to land.

Three infants and 11 crew were among those on board.

If this isn't miraculous, nothing is.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8128690.stm

Meanwhile doctors say the only survivor of the crash, teenage girl Baya Bakari, is recovering and in no danger.

BBC International said she spoke with her father and said she was ejected from the plane.

a pathetic and disgraceful account of how many of these carriers relegate their "garbage planes" for use in certain areas only (outside of Europe), so they don't have meet the European standards for safety, and are nothing more than flying deathtraps.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106133606

from a relatively new and well-maintained aircraft to that hunk of junk that ended up crashing. The switch was made to allow the newer plane to continue making flights back and forth from Europe, where the standards are higher...

Guess some lives are more valued than others :puke: