Posted on 06/29/2009 5:58:54 PM PDT by Steelfish
Yemeni airliner crashes in Indian Ocean 150 people reportedly on board; fate unknown
BREAKING NEWS o MORONI, Comoros - An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people on board, a senior government official said Tuesday.
"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," a senior government official told Reuters.
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God bless, and take care of all aboard...Amen.
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A Yemenia Airway plane carrying 150 people has crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean, Reuters news agency reported Tuesday.
“We don’t know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane,” Reuters quoted a senior government official as saying.
Kyodo
Airbust or BoeingBoeing?
Airbus? Just asking.
What are the odds it’s an Airbus ?
Thank you for the ping Jet Jaguar.
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A closer look at Comoros:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/comoros/index
Hmmm, another airplane crash in the ocean.
...but they've got to have a pretty good idea about that. I've made untold overwater flights, and the thought of survivability never crosses my mind; if the plane hiccups, we're finito.
Yemeni airlines fleet :
6 Airbuses, 4 B-737, 1 B747 and two Soviet made Ilyushins. I will guess its the Ilyushins or the Airbus.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yemenia
http://lite.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/LU506718.htm
Airliner crashes in Comoros, 150 on board
30 Jun 2009 01:02:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
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MORONI, June 30 (Reuters) - An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros with 150 people on board, a senior government official said on Tuesday.
“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.
The location 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 hospital.
“They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed,” he told Reuters.
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. (Reporting by Ahmed Ali Amir; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Jon Hemming)
The Ilyushins are cargo so it’s most likely the Airbus.
Pulled this off of Twitter's site.
http://news.stv.tv/world/105743-airliner-crashes-in-comoros-150-on-board/
“Airliner crashes in Comoros, 150 on board”
MORONI (Reuters) -
30 June 2009 00:37 AM
SNIPPET: “MORONI (Reuters) - An airliner belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people on board, a senior government official said Tuesday.”
The Yemenia fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 21 October 2008):
4 Airbus A310-300
2 Airbus A330-200
4 Boeing 737-800
1 Boeing 747SP
2 Ilyushin Il-76TD
I too have made a few flights over the pond. It is amazing how much trust we place in air travel--I know, I know--it's the safest form of travel, but when you think about a very simple problem that can kill all aboard, the danger involved becomes real...Ahh, it'll never happen to me...
I always figured the odds...figured I could sit at home scared or go with the odds and see the world. Worked out great!
More terrorism that will go unacknowledged?
Are you sure you are not writing from a parallel universe?
Prayers for the victims.
Twitter
Prayers for the victims.
How long ‘til Somali pirates scavenge the site and/or interfere with rescue and recovery attempts?
Could be either. They operate A330s, A310s, and 737s.
Another confirmation it was an A310.
yes, it was
http://twitter.com/BreakingNews
BreakingNewsURGENT — Yemenia Airlines flight schedule shows that flight 626/7, an Airbus A310, was flight which likely crashed in Comoros.
I understand the Pro-Boeing stance on this forum due to being an American company. But to automatically assume a crash story involves Airbus because it might be of a poorer quality than Boeing, is just foolish. Airbus produces some fine aircraft, despite being subsidized.
My favorite is A-330, which runs neck and neck with a 747-400..
BreakingNewsReuters: Comoran police source says Airbus is believed to have went down in the sea. “We really have no sea rescue capabilities,” he says.
I was very fond of the A330 to but recent incidents have made me a bit gun-shy.
My one and only trip to Europe was on an A330.
I thought it was a neat plane. My only complaint is that on a flight of that length, the coach seating seems to get more and more cramped as the hours go by.
Mine were all over the Pacific to places like Narita, Singapore or Australia......tons of long-haul time to think about such things if that's the mindset. I hate those little seatback GPS thingies that tell you that you "only" have 13 hours to your destination.
I would submit that the more important factor, if it is a mechanical problem, isn’t so much that it’s an Airbus instead of a Boeing as it is that it is the Yemeni airline.
Third-world aircraft maintenance is... well, third world.
So there’s that.
Thats how I feel on the flight from Dulles to Saint Louis!
You never know.
Yeah, I agree. However, you can also watch movies on them.
no. are you?
LOL
Was it oceanic 815?
(End LOST reference)
Yemeni plane with 150 aboard crashes in Comoros
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99388§ionid=351020506
An airliner belonging to the Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air has crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean with 150 people on board.
“We don’t know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane,” a senior government official told Reuters on Tuesday.
The exact 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 in to its hospital.
“They have just called me to come to the hospital. They said a plane had crashed,” he was quoted by Reuters
That's because Airbuses actually shrink as they fly. ;-)
No kidding?
I thought that was just submarines.
:)
Didn't do that twice.
Comoran police source says Airbus is believed to have went down in the sea. "We really have no sea rescue capabilities," he says.Yeah, really, why would they, they live on effing islands.
Airbus planes also have a nasty history of the tail coming off with Airbus rushing to bury the problem instead.
Airbus is the aircraft equivalent of British Leyland - it’s a government jobs program.
I am going hummmm too. Also, there has been another "doubled" event - a train in Italy has derailed and blew up, just as one in the US did recently.
That’s not exactly surprising, since most of the planet is covered by water. :P
Yemenias fleet is half scarebus
There are several nation’s names that should not be combined with “Airline.” Yemen is one of them.
Unless they contract out all flight and maintenance functions to a western company.
I wonder if they have made something that looks like a laptop and can zap the Airbust computer.
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