14-year-old survived the plane crash in Comoros
An Airbus A310 crashed in the Yemenia Airways Night on the Tuesday before the Comoros on landing in the Indian Ocean. Of the 153 persons on board, according to initial reports, at least one girl who survived the disaster.
The flight to the Comoros archipelago east of Africa had begun on Monday in Paris to the Roissy airport with an Airbus A330 of Yemeni national airline Yemenia. In Marseille, before rising again to 78 people. During a stopover at the airport of Sana'a (Yemen), passengers had to continue the trip to Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, in another plane, an Airbus A310 already 19 years old with 52,000 flight hours, change. After another stop in Djibouti undertook the pilot of this machine without first a successful landing attempt in Moroni and then continued on to a second approach, as they still unexplained reasons, a few kilometers off the coast crashed into the sea. A Comorian government spokesman referred to bad weather conditions. Of the 142 passengers and eleven crew members, according to reports Comorian a 14-year-olds who survived the disaster. She had clung to a piece of wreckage and was rescued and taken to hospital care. Fishermen and rescue teams, starting from France, from the neighboring islands of Mayotte and La Réunion supports investigated in the already-known accident spots any more survivors. Inzwischen wurden bereits die beiden Flugschreiber lokalisiert.
Nur einen Monat nach dem Unglück der Air France beim Flug von Rio nach Paris ist der Schock in Frankreich nach dieser neuen Katastrophe der Zivilluftfahrt besonders gross. 66 der Passagiere sind französische Staatsangehörige, bei den übrigen handelt es sich mehrheitlich um in Frankreich wohnhafte Bürger dieser seit 1975 unabhängigen ehemaligen französischen Kolonie. Allein in der Region Marseille lebt eine komorische Gemeinschaft von rund 80'000 Menschen, die für ihre Besuche in der Heimat praktisch keine Alternative zu den Flügen der Yemenia haben, über deren Vorstellungen von Sicherheit und Service sich diese Exilkomorer wiederholt beschwert hatten. Darum mixes now in the grief of the bereaved family members and friends of the alleged victims of the disaster and bright anger. A spokesman for the association "SOS Voyages Comores", which was organized in Marseille a year ago, a protest rally against the flight conditions of the state Yemeni airline, was beside himself: "For us Comorians the Yemenia is one from Sanaa wrecks and flying coffins What now. has happened had to happen sooner or later. "
Consul of Comoros in Marseille shares this outrage of his countrymen. These problems on the connection between Sanaa and Moroni are unfortunately even indicative of the threatening situation on some routes in developing countries. In the afternoon it was at the airport of Marseille-Marignane to scuffles between police and young Comoros, which required very upset that Yemenia had to be so far not officially published list of passengers known.
According to the French Minister of State for Transport, Dominique Bussereau, had the misfortune machine that had belonged to 1999, Air France, France fly since an inspection in 2007, when certain defects and irregularities were detected. The Yemenia Airways was not on the blacklist of the most dangerous societies, but was monitored.
warned against jumping to conclusions ex-airline pilot Gérard Feldz, director of the Aviation Museum at Le Bourget. First, there is between the disaster of the Air France 1 June on the Atlantic and the yesterday's accident off the coast of the Comoros no relation or analogy. Second, the complaint meant by the Comorian state of the interior of an aged aircraft far, that the operation carried out by external companies technical maintenance of the engines was inadequate. He knew some of the pilots of Yemenia, which came mostly from Saudi Arabia and had his view of the necessary knowledge.
Rudolf Balmer, Paris 06.30.2009
