Another plane drops from the sky

[Dimmauk]

All these planes crashes at the same place...reminds me of a certain TV show.

I'm still amazed that 5 year old kid survived. Poor kid out there in the ocean surrounded by dead bodies. I hope the kid recovers.

[6souls]

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A Yemeni plane which crashed into the Indian Ocean was banned from France because of "irregularities", the French transport minister has said.

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In Paris, Mr Bussereau told legislators that the Yemenia plane which crashed was not permitted to fly into France, and raised concerns about the transfer of passengers from a plane classed as safe to one which crashed into the ocean.

"A few years ago, we banned this plane from national territory because we believed it presented a certain number of irregularities in its technical equipment," Mr Bussereau told parliament.

"The question we are asking... is whether you can collect people in a normal way on French territory and then put them in a plane that does not ensure their security. We do not want this to happen again."

However, a spokesman for the airline said poor weather was more likely to have been a factor in the crash than the condition of the plane.

Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer also told Reuters news agency that the plane had recently undergone a thorough inspection overseen by Airbus and conformed to international standards.

The crash prompted the European Union to highlight its own concerns about Yemenia's safety record, proposing a world blacklist of those carriers deemed unsafe.

The EU already has its own list, and its transport commissioner, Antonio Tajani, said such a list would be a "safety guarantee for all".

Another EU official told Reuters there were concerns about the airline's "incomplete reporting procedure and incomplete follow-up" following 2007 tests on the aircraft that crashed, but that its record was improving.

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"Everybody here is talking about only one thing - the crash", another local journalist, Abdul Rahman Bar Amir, said.

"There are groups of people huddled everywhere, talking. Nobody seems to know what is going on. All we can do is wait for information. Nobody is eating, nobody is drinking. All we are doing is waiting."

In France, relatives also gathered at Paris' Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport and at Marseille Marignane airport to wait for news.

Some expressed anger at the state of the airline's planes.

"They put us aboard wrecks, they put us aboard coffins. That's where they put us. It's slaughter. It's slaughter," one relative in Paris told French TV.

BBC NEWS | Africa | France 'banned Yemen crash plane'

[6souls]

Details have emerged about the rescue of the only person known to have survived the crash of a Yemeni-operated plane off the Comoros islands.

A French rescuer said he had spotted the 14-year-old-girl in choppy waters amid bodies and wreckage. He said she was shaking as he pulled her up.

The girl was taken to a hospital in capital of the Comoros, Moroni. Five bodies have also been recovered.

The Airbus 310 was attempting a second landing when it crashed.

The rescuer told France's Europe 1 radio of finding the girl.

"We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her," he said.

"She was shaking, shaking. We put four sheets on her. We gave her hot, sugary water. We simply asked her name, village."

Dr Ada Mansour, who treated the child in hospital, told AFP she was conscious and talking, but added: "We are trying to warm her up because she was freezing."

It is believed the girl lives in Marseille and was travelling with her mother to the Comoros.

BBC NEWS | Africa | Girl survives Yemen plane crash

[Zumra]

Weird, I read in some other news a surviving child was a 14 year old girl, not a 5 year old boy.

What I really find bad is that both planes that crashed were tested like 2 years ago and both didn't get the best results for their technical stuff, however it didn't get fixed.

[Necronus]

I was just reading the most recent of these articles on yahoo where they're praising her "moral and physical strength" ... but the part that makes me wanna slap her uncle is:

The girl was traveling with her mother, who is feared dead. They had left Paris on Monday night to see family in the Comoros.

"She's asking for her mother," Yousouf told The Associated Press. For fear of upsetting Bahia, Yousouf has told her that her mother is in the room next door.

Uncle of the year award right there. This might be ok if it was a 5yr old, but 14? Opinions?

[rezn0r]

my opinon,

BIOSHOCK IRL

A 12-year-old girl thought to be the only survivor of the Yemenia air crash has told how she was thrown into the ocean and watched her aircraft sink.

Baya Bakari told her father at a hospital in Yemen that she heard voices around her in the Indian Ocean, but could not see anyone.

[Yuri-G]

man, this is such a tragedy, I can't believe how-

oh, they weren't white people? nevermind then.