Pilot of Yemenia plane did not send distress signal

September 30th, 2009 Military Officials: Small plane down in IndianaWASHINGTON — U.S. military officials say a small, single-engine plane crashed near Muncie, Indiana, after operating erratically.

September 16th, 2009 Small plane crashes at Hayward airportHAYWARD, Calif. — Authorities say a pilot walked away unharmed when his small plane crashed and caught fire shortly after takeoff from California's Hayward Executive Airport.

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 10th, 2009 NY pilot who radioed warning: Plane like missileNEW YORK —The pilot who radioed a desperate, last-minute warning says a plane that struck a helicopter over the Hudson River "looked like a cruise missile hitting a target." Ben Lane warned fellow helicopter pilot Jeremy Clarke on Saturday that the plane was bearing down on him. Lane tells the Daily News that another pilot heard him scream "Watch out! Watch out!" He doesn't remember screaming.

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 6th, 2009 Body found in sea off Comoros not from plane crashNAIROBI, Kenya — A Comoran official says a body has been found in the Indian Ocean but it is not related to the Yemenia Airways plane crash that killed 152 people last week. A search and rescue official says a body was found Sunday off the island of Anjouan.

July 2nd, 2009 PARIS - The Air France Airbus A330-200 that crashed into the Atlantic one month ago was not destroyed in flight, an official with the French Office of Accident Investigation (BEA) said Thursday at Le Bourget airport near Paris. Alain Bouillard, who is in charge of the investigation, said an analysis of the fragments of the plane that have been recovered suggests that "the plane seems to have hit the surface of the water in the line of flight with a strong vertical acceleration".

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.

June 17th, 2009 Pilot killed in Minnesota plane crashCRYSTAL, Minn. — Authorities say the pilot of a small airplane was killed trying to land in pouring rain at a Minnesota airport.

June 14th, 2009 Pilot of small plane dies in crash at NH resortGILFORD, N.H. — Authorities say the pilot of a single-engine plane has died after crashing on the grounds of a New Hampshire resort.

June 4th, 2009 PARIS - An Air France pilot has declared it "highly likely" that flight AF447 may have been blown up by a terrorist bomb. The long-haul captain, speaking on condition of anonymity, dismissed the theory the doomed jet suffered catastrophic electrical failure.

June 4th, 2009 MADRID - A pilot of the Spanish airline Air Comet covering the route between Lima and Madrid saw a white flash in the area where the Air France plane went missing, the daily El Mundo reported Thursday. El Mundo quoted a report by the pilot to his airline.