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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God bless, and take care of all aboard...Amen.
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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.
Kyodo
Airbust or BoeingBoeing?
Airbus? Just asking.
What are the odds it’s an Airbus ?
Thank you for the ping Jet Jaguar.
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A closer look at Comoros:
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/comoros/index
Hmmm, another airplane crash in the ocean.
...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.
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
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)
The Ilyushins are cargo so it’s most likely the Airbus.
Pulled this off of Twitter's site.
http://news.stv.tv/world/105743-airliner-crashes-in-comoros-150-on-board/
“Airliner crashes in Comoros, 150 on board”
MORONI (Reuters) -
30 June 2009 00:37 AM
SNIPPET: “MORONI (Reuters) - 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.”
The Yemenia fleet consists of the following aircraft (as of 21 October 2008):
4 Airbus A310-300
2 Airbus A330-200
4 Boeing 737-800
1 Boeing 747SP
2 Ilyushin Il-76TD
I too have made a few flights over the pond. It is amazing how much trust we place in air travel--I know, I know--it's the safest form of travel, but when you think about a very simple problem that can kill all aboard, the danger involved becomes real...Ahh, it'll never happen to me...
I always figured the odds...figured I could sit at home scared or go with the odds and see the world. Worked out great!
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