Airbus 310 crashes into Indian Ocean. 153 on board. no survivor
flight number: IY 626
crasched on aproach into Moroni. (300km north west of Madagaskar) (Komoren islands)
sorry thats all i have so far.
Airbus310 crashes in Indian Ocean- IY 626
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Re: Airbus310 crashes in Indian Ocean- IY 626
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YEMEN'S national carrier has confirmed that an Airbus passenger jet has crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros with 153 people aboard today. “The plane crashed in the early hours of the morning several nautical miles off the Comoros islands, with 142 passengers and 11 crew aboard,” a Yemenia official said. “Most of the passengers are French or from the Comoros,” the official said, adding that rescue boats had been sent to the scene of the crash to hunt for possible survivors.
The aircraft - which was due to have touched down in Moroni, the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago, around 2300 GMT on Monday (0900 AEST today). The flight started at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport yesterday when an Airbus A330-200 aircraft took off for Marseille in southern France and then on to Sanaa in Yemen. At Sanaa, passengers changed to an Airbus 310 and departed for Moroni via Djibouti.
A crisis task force was set up at Charles de Gaulle airport. An Airbus A330 aircraft, operated by Air France, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and France on June 1 with 228 people on board. There were no survivors.
Ibrahim Kassim, a representative from regional air security body ASECNA, said the Yemeni plane had probably come down 5 to 10km from the coast, and civilian and military boats had been mobilised to start searching. "We think the crash is somewhere along its landing approach," Kassim told Reuters. "The weather is really not very favourable. The sea is very rough."
ASECNA - the Agency for Aviation Security and Navigation in Africa and Madagascar - covers Francophone Africa. The town of Mitsamiouli is on the main island Grande Comore.
"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. Interior Minister Hamid Bourhane told Reuters the army had sent small speedboats to an area between the village of Ntsaoueni and the airport. "At the moment we don't have any information about whether there are any survivors," he said.
A medical worker in Mitsamiouli said he had been called in. "They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed," he said.
A United Nations official at the airport, who declined to be named, said the control tower had received notification the plane was coming into land, and then lost contact with it.
Yemenia, which is 51 per cent owned by the Yemeni government and 49 per cent owned by the Saudi Arabian government, flies to Moroni, according to flight schedules on its website. Yemenia's fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s, four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s, according to the site. The Comoros covers three small volcanic islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli, in the Mozambique channel, 300km 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.
AFP/Reuters
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YEMEN'S national carrier has confirmed that an Airbus passenger jet has crashed off the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros with 153 people aboard today. “The plane crashed in the early hours of the morning several nautical miles off the Comoros islands, with 142 passengers and 11 crew aboard,” a Yemenia official said. “Most of the passengers are French or from the Comoros,” the official said, adding that rescue boats had been sent to the scene of the crash to hunt for possible survivors.
The aircraft - which was due to have touched down in Moroni, the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago, around 2300 GMT on Monday (0900 AEST today). The flight started at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport yesterday when an Airbus A330-200 aircraft took off for Marseille in southern France and then on to Sanaa in Yemen. At Sanaa, passengers changed to an Airbus 310 and departed for Moroni via Djibouti.
A crisis task force was set up at Charles de Gaulle airport. An Airbus A330 aircraft, operated by Air France, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean between Brazil and France on June 1 with 228 people on board. There were no survivors.
Ibrahim Kassim, a representative from regional air security body ASECNA, said the Yemeni plane had probably come down 5 to 10km from the coast, and civilian and military boats had been mobilised to start searching. "We think the crash is somewhere along its landing approach," Kassim told Reuters. "The weather is really not very favourable. The sea is very rough."
ASECNA - the Agency for Aviation Security and Navigation in Africa and Madagascar - covers Francophone Africa. The town of Mitsamiouli is on the main island Grande Comore.
"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. Interior Minister Hamid Bourhane told Reuters the army had sent small speedboats to an area between the village of Ntsaoueni and the airport. "At the moment we don't have any information about whether there are any survivors," he said.
A medical worker in Mitsamiouli said he had been called in. "They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed," he said.
A United Nations official at the airport, who declined to be named, said the control tower had received notification the plane was coming into land, and then lost contact with it.
Yemenia, which is 51 per cent owned by the Yemeni government and 49 per cent owned by the Saudi Arabian government, flies to Moroni, according to flight schedules on its website. Yemenia's fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s, four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s, according to the site. The Comoros covers three small volcanic islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli, in the Mozambique channel, 300km 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.
AFP/Reuters
