[RDTF]

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.

[Ramius]

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.