From: Merhawie (merhawie@gmail.com)
Date: Mon Jun 29 2009 - 22:33:19 EDT
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8125664.stm
Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean
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*A Yemeni airliner with 150 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean
near the Comoros archipelago, officials there say.*
"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the
plane," the Comoros vice-president told Reuters news agency.
The plane belonged to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air, he said.
The three islands of Comoros are about 300km (190 miles) northwest of
Madagascar in the Mozambique channel.
Vice-president Idi Nadhoim, speaking from the airport at the main island's
capital Moroni, said the accident happened early on Tuesday.
The exact location of the plane was not immediately known.
The details of the flight are also unknown, but there was a flight from
Sanaa, the capital of Yemen, due about 0230 (0030 BST). That flight was a
connecting flight from Paris.
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.
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