Yemeni Plane Crashes Off Comoros

This is another disaster!

An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros Tuesday, a senior government official said.

"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters from the airport at the main island's capital Moroni.

Nadhoim said the accident happened in the early hours of Tuesday, but could not give any more details.

"There is a crash, there is a crash in the sea," said an unnamed official who answered the phone in the Yemenia office in Moroni. He declined further comment.

An airline official in Yemen declined to comment.

Yemenia, which is 51 percent owned by the Yemeni government and 49 percent owned by the Saudi Arabian government, flies to Moroni, according to flight schedules on its Web site.

1996 CRASH
Yemenia's fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s, four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s, according to the site.

The location of the crash was not immediately known, but a medical worker in the town of Mitsamiouli, on the main island Grande Comore, said he had been called into the local hospital.

"They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed," he told Reuters.

A Comoran police source said the plane was believed to have come down in the sea. "We really have no sea rescue capabilities," he said.

The Comoros covers three small volcanic islands, Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli, in the Mozambique channel, 300 km (190 miles) northwest of Madagascar and a similar distance east of the African mainland.

A hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into the sea off the Comoros islands in 1996, killing 125 of 175 passengers and crew

Source: Reuters.

[Bongolander]

I think we have a right to be worried with AIRBUS planes, i am also worried whether the flight data recorder will be found just like it is with AF447. INashangaza kuona mambo haya yanatokea kwa karibukaribu!

[Kaizer]

	Quote:	Bongolander
	I think we have a right to be worried with AIRBUS planes, i am also worried whether the flight data recorder will be found just like it is with AF447. INashangaza kuona mambo haya yanatokea kwa karibukaribu!

mkuu tusubiri tuone kama iliyocrash ni airbus au boeing....

[Kaizer]

	Quote:	Bongolander
	I think we have a right to be worried with AIRBUS planes, i am also worried whether the flight data recorder will be found just like it is with AF447. INashangaza kuona mambo haya yanatokea kwa karibukaribu!

Mkuu nimesikiliza BBC radio hapa wanasema ilikuwa ni Airbus 310. nadhani hawa wajamaa wana serious problem sasa. wengi wa abiria walikuwa wacomoro wakirejea home from france. Mungu awarehemu.

Pn the other hand, tutakwepaje hizi Airbus>? manake nyingi ya safari zangu najikuta natumia hizo?

[X-PASTER]

Innalillah wa inna illahi rajiun...!

Mwenyezi Mungu awarehemu Insha'Allah.

NB:
Si ajabu ukasikia Yahaya
Husein akajitia katabiri
hii ajali.

[Bongolander]

	Quote:	Kaizer
	Mkuu nimesikiliza BBC radio hapa wanasema ilikuwa ni Airbus 310. nadhani hawa wajamaa wana serious problem sasa. wengi wa abiria walikuwa wacomoro wakirejea home from france. Mungu awarehemu. Pn the other hand, tutakwepaje hizi Airbus>? manake nyingi ya safari zangu najikuta natumia hizo?

Tatizo ni kuwa ile ajali ya Brazil hatujui chanzo na hii ya comoro kwa sasa hatujui chanzo. Lakini zote zinahusu ndege za ufaransa inaacha maswali kuleta hofu.

[Ab-Titchaz]

	Quote:	X-PASTER
	NB: Si ajabu ukasikia Yahaya Husein akajitia katabiri hii ajali.

Hio sasa kali....

Mungu awarehemu wafiwa.Amin.

[Ab-Titchaz]

Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean

A Yemeni airliner with about 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago.

"We don't know if there are any survivors," Comoros vice-president Idi Nadhoim told Reuters news agency.

The Airbus 310 was operated by the Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air. The details of the flight are not known.

However reports say there was a flight from Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, due about 0230 (0030 BST). That flight was a connecting flight from Paris. The three islands of Comoros are about 300km (190 miles) northwest of Madagascar in the Mozambique channel.

The exact location of the crash was not immediately known

But a civil aviation official told the BBC that the plane was probably a few kilometres from the capital, Moroni, when it crashed. Weather conditions had not been good for several days, he added.

A resident near the airport told the BBC about 100 people were trying to get into the airport to find out more information, but without much success.

In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian airliner came down in the same area; most of the 175 passengers and crew were killed.

On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board. The cause of that crash has not been identified.

Source: BBC NEWS | Africa | Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean

[Indume Yene]

	Quote:	Bongolander
	I think we have a right to be worried with AIRBUS planes, i am also worried whether the flight data recorder will be found just like it is with AF447. INashangaza kuona mambo haya yanatokea kwa karibukaribu!

Mkuu nafikiri itakuwa vyema kama tukipata more info kuhusu hii flight kujua kama ni Airbus au la. Ku-draw conclusion kuwa ni airbus sidhani kama itakuwa ni fair endapo itajulikana kama si airbus.

[Ab-Titchaz]

	Quote:	Indume Yene
	Mkuu nafikiri itakuwa vyema kama tukipata more info kuhusu hii flight kujua kama ni Airbus au la. Ku-draw conclusion kuwa ni airbus sidhani kama itakuwa ni fair endapo itajulikana kama si airbus.

Indume Yene,

News report zinasema ilikua Airbus 310.