Another plane drops from the sky

[6souls]

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

Some bodies have been recovered, a Yemeni aviation official said. It is not clear whether there were survivors.

The Airbus 310 flight IY626, operated by Yemeni carrier Yemenia Air, was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa.

Reports say it was due in the Comoros capital Moroni at about 0230 (0030 BST). Most of the passengers were believed to be travelling from Paris.

Airline officials said there were 142 passengers, including three infants, and 11 crew on board, adding that most of the passengers were Comoran or French.

"The weather conditions were rough; strong wind and high seas," official Mohammad al-Sumairi told Reuters news agency.

The three Comoros islands are about 300km (190 miles) northwest of Madagascar in the Mozambique channel.

The exact location of the crash was not immediately known.

But a civil aviation official told the BBC that the plane was probably a few kilometres from Moroni, on the island of Njazidja (Grande Comore), when it crashed.

There were unconfirmed reports that it had attempted to land but aborted the landing. It was not seen again.

A search is under way, involving two French military aircraft and a French vessel, the director general of Moroni International Airport, Hadji Madi Ali, told Reuters.

A resident near the airport told the BBC about 100 people were trying to get into the airport to find out more information, but without much success.

The airline Yemenia is 51% owned by the Yemeni government and 49% by the Saudi government.

In 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian airliner came down in the same area - most of the 175 passengers and crew were killed.

On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 travelling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board.

The cause of that crash has not been identified.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Yemen jet crashes in Indian Ocean

[archibaldcrane]

Hands up if you've heard of Comoros before.

Anybody?

K, just making sure.

[Aerin]

Toddler found alive.

Child found alive from crashed plane - CNN.com

[wop]

Don't fly Airbus

[Elites]

Even if you somehow managed to survive the crash, imagine the goddamn sharks just waiting for you in the ocean. I'd hate to be floating there for days while waiting for some sort of rescue...best to die off from the crash.

[gamez]

It's not just another "Air Bus" crash in a month, it's the second one to come out of France this month of the same model. Don't know the country of arrival, but they both share a departure point that should/is probably going to come under scrutiny.

[Brill Weave]

Hands up if you've heard of Comoros before.

Isn't it a bird?

[Wintermute]

Don't fly Airbus

Airbus 310 is the new DC-10

[Xenophobe]

Don't fly Airbus

Airbus has a great safety record

for the 330

Airbus A330: a good, but not flawless safety record - Times Online

for the 310

Airbus A310 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

If you look at the 310 crashes most were pilot error, which is generally the case with most aircraft going down.

Aviation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

* 53%: Pilot error
* 21%: Mechanical failure
* 11%: Weather
* 8%: Other human error (air traffic controller error, improper loading of aircraft, improper maintenance, fuel contamination, language miscommunication etc.)
* 6%: Sabotage (bombs, hijackings, shoot-downs)
* 1%: Other cause

And of those that are mechanical failures, they could have been avoided.


Until more is known about the crash it is foolish to blame the plane.

[kuronosan]

Okay, no more flying France. Now their planes are starting to retreat too.

[Kurokikaze]

Okay, no more flying France. Now their planes are starting to retreat too.

Epic. That is all.

[Jodwahh]

1/5 crashes being avoidable mechanical fuck ups is good? If that compares well to other planes then holy fuck lol.

[Dimmauk]

Toddler found alive.

Child found alive from crashed plane - CNN.com

That is amazing. How old was the kid?

[Vigilia]

That is amazing. How old was the kid?

5 according to radio news I heard.

[kuronosan]

Thank God for the No Child Left Behind Act.

[Dantrag]

Aviation accidents and incidents - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

* 53%: Pilot error
* 21%: Mechanical failure
* 11%: Weather
* 8%: Other human error (air traffic controller error, improper loading of aircraft, improper maintenance, fuel contamination, language miscommunication etc.)
* 6%: Sabotage (bombs, hijackings, shoot-downs)
* 1%: Other cause

And of those that are mechanical failures, they could have been avoided.


Until more is known about the crash it is foolish to blame the plane.

Is that Airbus only? or all in general?

[kuronosan]

That's in general.

[Xenophobe]

1/5 crashes being avoidable mechanical fuck ups is good? If that compares well to other planes then holy fuck lol.

That is a general worldwide industry stat. You have to remember that amount of incidents that happen are very low.

Aviation accidents are extremely rare, with the probability of a passenger being killed on a single flight at approximately eight million-to-one. If a passenger boarded a flight at random, once a day, everyday, it would statistically be over 21,000 years before he or she would be killed.

Airline accident ratings

Look at the North American airline stats in on this page, we have an extremely good safety record.

Air France
Regional rank: 21
Million flights: 6.15
Fatal events: 3
Last fatal event: 2000
Overall rank (1-88): 65

Those are Air Frances stats as of 2008. They are 65th in safety over all, not the greatest company to Fly with.

I worded my previous post wrong, of those mechanical failures most could have been avoided. They are oversights by the maintenance crews i.e missing a critical part failure in a pre-flight inspection.

Those stats include small aircraft as well i.e. Cessna 182 and similar. Which have a higher accident rate then the major commercial airlines.

[Despain]

Yeah... I've never even heard of Comoros 'til now D:

This sucks.. but shit happens I guess.

[guartz]

oh god, it's happening


run for your lives.


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