Yemenia Airways crash: second recorder found

by lisha | August 29, 2009 at 07:19 pm
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Published Date: 30 August 2009

Grand Comoros
THE second black box from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean in June with 153 people aboard was recovered yesterday.
A teenage girl was the only survivor when Flight 626 from Paris to Moroni via Yemen plunged into the sea on June 30.
Colonel Ismael Daho, leading the hunt for the black boxes, said the plane's voice recorder had now been passed to a team investigating the crash.
The flight's data recorder was recovered using a remote-controlled robot on Friday
Red Cross co-ordinator Abdourhamane Bacari said teams will continue work for another two weeks to bring up wreckage and look for more bodies. Around 37 bodies have been found so far.
It is hoped the black boxes can help establish the cause of the crash. Angry relatives of the victims have accused Yemenia of operating an unsafe plane, but it said high winds and bad weather were to blame.
Yemeni, French and Comoros authorities have been working to recover the boxes, which lay at a depth of 3,900ft nine miles north-west of Grand Comoros.


{ The latest, after two months in the Yemenia Airbus 310 crash investigation was that it was shot down with a missile by the French Navy vessels performing maneuvers in the area of the accident a day before the plane crash. One tends to doubt that why were the French Navy performing maneuvers in the area in the kind of weather that doomed the landing of the Yemenia airbus? Notams says firing will take place from july to september 2009. (Does the French Navy normally fire at Mitsamouli, Djomani, Ouemani or Ouela?)  The news site malango-actualite.com  said a small vessel it identified as the Sima Com II picked Bahia Bakari, the only survivor of this crash, up after she had floated in the ocean for several hours following the crash which killed 152 others on board the Airbus A310. The website said Bahia Bakari clung to the piece of wood for 12 or 13 or 14 hours before being rescued?  In the middle of the indian ocean, in darkness and chaos where did the piece of wood come? And that too only she could find the wood why not others?
The website, reporting in French, said: ” C’est en début d’après-midi que le Sima Com II a retrouvé, flottant sur une planche de bois, une jeune fille de 14 ans, Dahia Bacar, qui dérivait depuis douze heures. Elle est arrivée dans la soirée au port de Moroni, apparemment indemne.”
Accounts about how many bodies have been recovered at sea remain uncertain and unknown. The aircraft had been visually sighted by the control tower before the crash and there was a five-minute radio blackout before the plane went down. Winds were gusting at up to 37 miles per hour at the Moroni airport which is a difficult location to land on even under the best of weather conditions. Everybody knows that Comoros has poor airport infrastructure and has seen a number of crashes.
Colleagues and relatives of the crew of Yemenia Flight 626, which crashed June 30 on its way from San'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros, protest to demand their government work with France in speeding up the investigation and to ensure that Yemen is involved, outside the Cabinet building in the capital San'a, Yemen on Tuesday, July 14, 2009.
On august 25th 2009, there was a news article in  (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208942/)

where Bahia tells another different story that --
She said: 'Others were alive in the water. I heard women crying. They appeared to be near me and were pleading for help. But I did not see them, or know where I was. 'I tried to join them so I wouldn't be alone, but it was difficult. I was tired, and there were waves.
'When I found myself in the water, I said to myself that it was necessary to stay awake and that rescuers would not be late arriving. 'But I stayed awake and I saw nothing. Then I fell asleep. In the morning I again remained hopeful. But then I said to myself, that's that, they're not going to find me. 'Then I heard the voices of men who had come to rescue me but I could not reach the lifebuoy and someone had to jump into the water to help me.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1208942/Schoolgirl-survivor-crash-killed-153-tells-miracle-survival-shark-infested-waters.html#ixzz0Pd7u4XM8

How can one have a good sleep in the middle of the ocean, in darkness, frightened, scared etc etc? in shark infested area? Anyway all this briefing done, was for those families who are desperately waiting for an answer and anxiously waiting to get their victim's dead body or even a belonging. Today, 30th august 2009  is two months complete since the crash, and there is no known cause of the crash?
For families of these crash victims only memories remain. Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted.  Families please know that my thoughts and prayers are with you, always. There are times when words just seem so small. }

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jehan

May god bless all de victims of de yemenia flight....i knew some of the crew....may there souls rest in peace....wat happened to the investigation dat was goin on??

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