Yemeni airport official: Plane that crashed off Comoros had 142 passengers, 11 crew on board

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 7th, 2009 Divers, investigators in Comoros search for planeNAIROBI, Kenya — A Comoran official says little debris and no bodies from the crashed Yemenia Airways plane have been found, but predicts that will change once the exact location of the plane's black boxes are pinpointed. One 12-year-old girl survived by clinging to floating debris for up to 13 hours after the June 30 plane crash, but 152 other passengers and crew are still missing from Flight 626.

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 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 1st, 2009 Teenage survivor of jet crash 'doing well'MORONI, Comoros — A nurse says a teenager belived to be the only survivor of a Yemeni jetliner crash is "doing well" in a hospital in Comoros. Said Mohammed, a nurse at El Mararouf hospital, said Wednesday doctors would release more on the girl's condition later Wednesday.

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.

June 30th, 2009 Yemen plane crashes off Comoros with 153 on boardSAN'A, Yemen — A passenger jet from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday as it tried to land during heavy wind on the island nation of Comoros, and search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said. There were 142 passengers and a crew of 11 Yemenis on board when the Airbus A310, which had set off from the Yemeni capital of San'a, went down shortly before landing in Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore, Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said.

June 30th, 2009 LONDON - A Yemen Airways passenger plane with over 150 people on board crashed into waters close to the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday. There were 142 passengers and 11 crewmembers on board and their fate was not immediately known.

June 30th, 2009 SANA'A - A Yemen Airways passenger plane with 150 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean island of Comoros early Tuesday, a company official confirmed. "The plane crashed in the sea 15 minutes ahead of the scheduled time of arrival in Moroni," the official told DPA.

June 30th, 2009 PARIS - A Yemenia Air plane with 150 people on board crashed in the Indian Ocean island of Comoros early Tuesday, French radio station RFI reported. It was unclear whether there were any survivors, Comoros government officials were quoted as saying by broadcaster CNN.

June 30th, 2009 Comoros: Child rescued alive in Airbus 310 crashCAIRO — A Comoros police official says a child has been rescued alive from the sea in the Airbus 310 crash off the Indian Ocean island. Immigrations officer with the Comoros operations, Rachida Abdullah, says a toddler was rescued from the crash site Tuesday.

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.

June 30th, 2009 Yemen official: Comoros-bound plane crashesSAN'A, Yemen — A Yemenia Air plane going from the Arabian Peninsula country of Yemen to the island nation of Comoros crashed in the Indian Ocean early Tuesday, a Yemen airport official said. The official said the plane was going from the Yemen capital San'a to Moroni, on the main island of Grand Comore.

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 Child rescued in jet crash off Indian Ocean islandCAIRO — A Comoros police official says a child has been rescued from the sea in the Airbus 310 crash off the Indian Ocean island. Immigrations officer with the Comoros operations, Rachida Abdullah, says a toddler was rescued from the crash site Tuesday.