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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.

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[Clint Williams]

Airbust or BoeingBoeing?

[BfloGuy]

Airbus? Just asking.

[libh8er]

What are the odds it’s an Airbus ?

[TribalPrincess2U]

Hmmm, another airplane crash in the ocean.

[ErnBatavia]

"We don't know if there are any survivors among the 150 people on the plane," a senior government official told Reuters.

...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.

[libh8er]

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

[Raycpa]

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)

[counterpunch]

More terrorism that will go unacknowledged?

[fieldmarshaldj]

Prayers for the victims.

[2111USMC]

Yemenia Airlines flight 626/7 took off from Moroni in Comoros at 1 a.m. local time and was en-route to Sana'a in Yemen.

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[KJC1]

Prayers for the victims.

How long ‘til Somali pirates scavenge the site and/or interfere with rescue and recovery attempts?

[2111USMC]

Yemenia Airlines flight schedule shows that flight 626/7, an Airbus A310, was flight which likely crashed in Comoros.

Another confirmation it was an A310.

[InterceptPoint]

I wonder what kind of physical security is in place for the computer code that runs airplanes. Maybe some smart 15 year old al Queda c++ wiz is bringing these planes down.

You never know.

[Terabitten]

Was it oceanic 815?

(End LOST reference)

[omega4179]

Yemenias fleet is half scarebus

[PLMerite]

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.