14 yr old girl only survivor in the Yemen’s Plane Crash with 153 passangers, till now

September 4th, 2009 Black boxes from Yemenia Airways flight damagedPARIS — A Comoran investigator says the black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean in June are damaged. Mohamed Ali Abdou says investigators are still trying to recover the information held in the flight's black boxes.

August 29th, 2009 2nd black box recovered from Comoros plane crashMORONI, Comoros — Authorities say they have recovered the second of two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean in June with 153 people aboard. Col. Ismael Daho in charge of the Comoran crisis unit set up to deal with the crash says the plane's voice recorder was recovered Saturday.

August 28th, 2009 Comoros says Yemenia black box recovery under wayPARIS — The Comoros investigation team says the flight data recorder from the Yemenia Airways plane that crashed June 30 off the Comoros Islands has been located and recovery operations have started. The announcement represents an important step in the investigation of the crash that killed 152 people flying from Paris to Moroni, the Comoros capital, via Yemen.

August 28th, 2009 Comoros: Yemenia flight data recorder is foundMORONI, Comoros — An international team on Friday retrieved a slightly damaged flight data recorder from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean on June 30, killing 152 people, Comoros-based officials said. The black box was picked up underwater off the coast of the island nation's capital, Moroni, according to a statement released by the Comoros-based investigation team.

August 28th, 2009 Comoros: Yemenia flight data recorder foundMORONI, Comoros — Investigators on Friday retrieved the slightly damaged flight data recorder and 10 more bodies from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean June 30, officials said. The black box was found underwater off the coast of the island nation's capital, Moroni, according to the Comoros-based aviation investigation team.

July 23rd, 2009 French navy detects Comoros crash black boxesPARIS — A French navy vessel has detected the black boxes of a Yemenia Airways plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands, the ship's captain said Thursday. Comoran and French authorities, meanwhile, were still investigating the cause of the June 30 crash that left a 12-year-old girl as the only known survivor out of 153 people aboard.

July 13th, 2009 Relatives of plane crash victims travel to ComorosPARIS — Relatives of those killed when a Yemenia Airways plane crashed two weeks ago traveled Monday to the Comoros Islands in hopes of finding peace after their losses, officials said. Authorities, meanwhile, were still investigating the cause of the June 30 crash, from which a 12-year-old girl was the only survivor out of 153 aboard.

July 12th, 2009 Relatives of plane crash victims to visit ComorosPARIS — At least 150 family members of those who died on Yemenia Airways Flight 626 landed Monday in the Comoros Islands aboard a chartered French airplane, company officials said. Yemenia organized the special flight for relatives of victims and its insurance company paid for it.

July 4th, 2009 Yemen says plane wreckage recovered off ComorosSAN'A, Yemen — A Yemeni aviation committee says pieces of wreckage from the passenger jet that crashed off the Comoros islands have been recovered. The committee overseeing the investigation says divers brought up pieces of the Airbus 310's fuselage.

July 3rd, 2009 Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crashPARIS — Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros — a route that saw a deadly crash this week, after years of complaints about dangerous conditions on the flight path to the Indian Ocean island nation. The airline that operated the crashed jet, Yemenia, suspended its service to Comoros in response to the Paris protest and other demonstrations this week, accusing the protesters of "inadmissible violence." Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday's accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines' Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the problems.

July 2nd, 2009 PARIS - The only known survivor from the crash of a Yemenia Airbus A310 near the Comoros islands, 12-year-old Bahiya Bakary, arrived at Le Bourget airport near Paris Thursday. The "miracle girl", as she has been dubbed, was accompanied on the flight by French Junior Minister for Development Alain Joyandet and was greeted on the tarmac by her father, Kassim Bakary, and other family members.

July 1st, 2009 PARIS - A 14-year-old girl who survived Tuesday's crash of a Yemenia Air Airbus A310 told her father that the accident occurred suddenly and that she heard other survivors in the water, France 24 news station reported Wednesday. "Everything went black, and we went down," Bakari Bahiya told her father Bakari Kassim over telephone, according to the report.

June 30th, 2009 PARIS - Searchers have found a survivor of early Tuesday's crash of a Yemenia Airways flight with 153 people on board, French i-tele reported, citing information from the airline. In addition, three bodies are reported to have been recovered from the waters some 10 kilometres off the coast of the Comoros Islands.

June 30th, 2009 Plane with 153 crashes off Comoros, child rescuedMORONI, Comoros — Reports that a 5-year-old boy survived a jetliner crash in the Indian Ocean are now in question. Rachida Abdullah is an immigrations officer in the Comoros, where the plane went down.

June 30th, 2009 An Yemeni aircraft carrying roughly around 150 people crashed on Tuesday. It belonged to the state run carrier Yemenia.The crash took place in the waters of the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands.