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Yemen Plane Crash - Child Survives

by SamirJ | June 30, 2009 at 07:49 am

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Another news update on the Yemeni plane crash in the Indian Ocean.

A five-year-old child has been found alive, hours after a Yemeni airliner crashed in the Indian Ocean with more than 150 people on board.

Some bodies have also been recovered from the wreckage of the plane.

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

There were more than 150 people on board, including three babies and 11 crew.

An airport source told AFP news agency that 66 of the passengers were French, although many are thought to have dual French-Comoran citizenship.

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sara star

at 09:15 on June 30th, 2009

Incredible. First to have survived the crash, and then the ocean... Is this child a saint?

Edmund Jenks

at 09:33 on June 30th, 2009

Many speculations are surfacing about these last two plane "break-up" incidents.

These jets were Airbus 330's, not a lightweight platform (not of bailing wire and cloth). They were both essentially all French in passenger/destination composition. Al Queda is known to stay with a plan once they have adopted a plan. The first attempts at bringing down the World Trade Center Buildings were just that - first attempts - they NEVER gave up. The original plan from Al Queda was to have many hijacked planes Blow-Up over the ocean.

This stuff may not be over just yet, and the current Administration of the United States does not have a clue how to address threats around the world ... any threat!

Hey, Obama wants to re-instate a would be dictator back in Honduras for God's sake! The military was just upholding their constitution.

SamirJ

at 09:43 on June 30th, 2009

Interesting points made by Edmund!

sara star

at 10:54 on June 30th, 2009

Officials said as many as 66 French nationals were aboard the plane, as well as 54 Comorans, one Palestinian and the Canadian.

....The French military sent army and civilian medical teams, boats and divers to the crash site aboard a plane from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion.

Jordan Yerman

at 13:41 on June 30th, 2009

The most likely cause of the crash was the plane itself, which had failed safety checks to the point where it was not allowed to fly to or from France. Rather than make these repairs, Yemenia Airways just used it for the last half of the Paris-Moroni long haul.

We like to think that airlines have safety in mind at all times, but this is simply not the case. Some airlines cut corners where they can, and just hope that probability ends up on their side. However, on a long enough timeline, the more run-down a plane is, the more likely something will happen. And by "something", I mean "a crash".

sara star

at 10:49 on June 30th, 2009

A 14-year-old girl who survived the crash is being treated in a hospital in the Comoros, a Comoros Red Cross spokesman told AFP.

"The young girl, aged 14, has arrived at the El Maarouf hospital. We were told that her condition is not worrisome," said Red Cross spokeswoman Ramulati Ben Ali.

Ben Ali said only one survivor had been found so far. Several Comoran medical officials had earlier reported that a five-year-old boy had been found in the water following the Airbus crash.