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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More terrorism that will go unacknowledged?
Are you sure you are not writing from a parallel universe?
Prayers for the victims.
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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
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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?
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Yemeni plane with 150 aboard crashes in Comoros
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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
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