A 14-year-old girl rescued alive from site of Yemeni airliner crashed Indian Ocean

The girl was one of 153 people on board an Airbus 310 aircraft which ditched in the sea ten miles off the coast of the Comoros Islands after a botched initial attempt at landing.


A 14-year-old girl plucked alive from the waters of the Indian Ocean is thought to be the only survivor of the second plane disaster to hit France in a month.

They also came across the girl, who they said was "very tired". Arfachad Salim, a rescue coordinator for the Comoros Red Crescent, said she had been taken ashore and was being treated in hospital in the Comoros' capital Moroni.

"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical
centre opened for survivors.

Yemeni airliner crashed with 153 people on board

Yemenia plane crashes

A Yemeni jetliner with about 150 people aboard has crashed in the Indian Ocean off the island nation of Comoros, aviation officials in Yemen said Tuesday. The Airbus A310, from the national airline Yemenia, was en route to Comoros when it crashed about an hour before it was due to land, an airline official said. There was no word on the fate of those on board.

A Yemenia plane in the Indian Ocean island of Soccotra. A Yemeni Airbus carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came into land in the Comoros islands but rescuers have managed to pull a child survirvor from the water, officials say




Graphic map showing the route taken by the Yemeni Airbus which crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came into land in the Comoros islands. Rescuers have managed to pull a child survirvor from the water,

Relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Airbus flight A310-300 from Yemen arrive at a crisis center at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, June 30, 2009.

France's Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau (2nd R) leaves the crisis centre at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris June 30, 2009. An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea as it approached the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros in bad weather early on Tuesday

Child Survives Crash of Yemeni Jet Carrying 153 the Indian Ocean

Survives Crash of Yemeni Jet Carrying

The rescued child was 5 years old and the flight also had at least three babies, Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said.

A passenger jet carrying 153 people from Yemen crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Search teams rescued a child from the sea, officials said, but there was no word on other survivors.

A Yemeni airliner with 153 people on board has crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros archipelago.



Qader said "The weather was very bad ... the wind was very strong," he said, adding the windy conditions were hampering rescue efforts. He said the wind was 40 miles per hour (61 kph) as the plane was landing.

Air France Airbus A330-200 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean May 31, killing all 228 people on board, as it flew from Rio de Janeiro to Paris.

the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the Airbus 310 crashed in deep waters about 9 miles (14.5 kilometers) north of the Comoran coast and 21 miles (34 kilometers) from the Moroni airport.

French President Nicolas Sarkozy "expressed his deep emotion" about the crash and asked the French military to help in the rescue operation, particularly from the French islands of Mayotte and Reunion.