Yemen Airline Crash: Many Feared Dead

August 21st, 2009 Air France sued over plane crash investigationPARIS — A lawyer says the family of a French flight attendant who perished in an Air France plane crash on June 1 over the Atlantic Ocean is suing the airline to force it to release information on what caused the tragedy. The Airbus jet went down while flying from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

August 20th, 2009 Underwater robots reach site of Indian Ocean crashPARIS — France says a ship carrying an underwater robot has arrived at the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros to retrieve the flight recorders from the Yemenia Airways plane crash. One girl survived the June 30 ocean crash and the other 152 people aboard the Comoros-bound flight were killed.

August 5th, 2009 Official: All 16 on crashed Indonesian plane deadJAKARTA, Indonesia — Rescuers have reached the wreckage of a small plane that crashed into a remote Indonesian jungle and reported that all 16 people aboard were dead, an airline official said Wednesday. The Twin Otter came down in bad weather Sunday as it flew over the Papua region in eastern Indonesia, much of which is covered with thick jungles and mountains.

July 26th, 2009 Police: 7 dead in NY parkway crashBRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — New York state police say seven people have died in a three-car crash on a parkway in suburban New York City.

July 26th, 2009 Police: 7 dead in wrong-way crash on NY parkwayBRIARCLIFF, N.Y. — Police say a three-car crash on a parkway in suburban New York City has killed seven people.

July 10th, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Fishermen have pulled 18 bodies from the Indian Ocean off Tanzania more than a week after 152 people died in a Yemen Airways plane crash, a police spokesman said Friday. The spokesman told the South African radio station SAFM that a weather radar instrument was among the wreckage of the Airbus A310 found near the island of Mafia, located about 180 km south of Zanzibar and 600 km from the suspected crash site off the Comoros islands.

July 6th, 2009 French experts at sea to hunt for black boxesNAIROBI, Kenya — French aviation experts set out in speedboats from the Comoros Islands on Monday, trying to pinpoint the exact location of the black boxes from a flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last week, killing 152 people. The aviation investigation agency BEA said a French submarine had picked up signal beacons from the black boxes on Sunday.

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 1st, 2009 JOHANNESBURG - Hopes dwindled Wednesday for finding any more survivors of the Yemenia Air plane crash off the Comoros Islands, as rescue teams continued to scour the seas for more wreckage. A 14-year old girl is the only known survivor so far of the 153 people on the Airbus A310 from Sana'a, Yemen, which crashed at sea after missing its first attempt at landing in the Comoran capital, Moroni, in bad weather.

June 30th, 2009 DUBAI - The bodies of several passengers aboard the Yemen Airways flight that crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday have been found, reports broadcaster Al-Arabiya. There were 153 people on board the flight en route from Yemen to the Comoros Islands.

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 SANA'A - Eyewitnesses have spotted bodies and an oil slick in waters near the Comoros Islands following the crash of a Yemen Airways flight with 153 people on board in the India Ocean early Tuesday, Yemeni officials said Tuesday. "Some bodies were seen in the area of the crash," said Muhammed Abdul-Qadber, chairman of the Yemeni National Civil Aviation Association.

May 8th, 2009 FAA reviews crew flying hours of NY crash airlineBUFFALO, N.Y. — The Federal Aviation Administration is looking into whether crew members of the airline whose flight crashed into a home in upstate New York in February recently flew more hours than generally allowed by federal limits.

March 29th, 2009 SANA'A - Yemen Saturday extradited to Saudi Arabia five Saudi suspects wanted in their country over links to terrorist activities, security sources said. The sources said the suspects included Abdullah Abdul-Rahman al-Harbi, a leading Al Qaeda suspect who was arrested in southern Yemen March 14.

January 17th, 2009 SANAA - Hundreds of people were missing after three boats capsized in two separate incidents off the coast of Yemen Saturday, a UN official said here Sunday. In one incident, two boats, with around 300 African migrants on board, capsized on the Red Sea off the coast of Yemen.