Search Team Locates 1 Black Box from Yemenia Air Plane

World | July 1, 2009, Wednesday // 13:23
Search Team Locates 1 Black Box from Yemenia Air Plane: Search Team Locates 1 Black Box from Yemenia Air Plane Yemenia Air is 51% owned by the Yemeni government and 49% by the Saudi government. Photo by BGNES

One of the black box flight recorders from the Yemeni plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday has been located.

The news was reported by BBC, citing a French official, who further said efforts to retrieve the recorder's content will begin during the day Wednesday.

The black box's signal was located yesterday (Tuesday) afternoon local time by an aerial patrol, 40 km from Grande Comore.

Meanwhile doctors say the only survivor of the crash, teenage girl Baya Bakari, is recovering and in no danger.

Apart from the 14-year-old girl found alive, no other survivors from the plane have been found, and rescuers say chances of finding more are slim.

The Airbus 310 flight IY626 with about 153 passengers and crew was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa to the Comoros capital Moroni when it crashed into the Indian Ocean.

Most of the passengers had traveled to Sanaa from Paris or Marseille on a different aircraft. 66 of them were listed as French, although many are thought to have dual French-Comoran citizenship.

The cause of the crash is said to be the inclement weather that prevented the pilot's attempt of emergency landing.

France's Transport Minister, Dominique Bussereau, was quoted as telling the French TV faults were found on the plane during a check in 2007.

The French Transport Ministry also announced Tuesday the Airbus 310 plane had been banned from France because of "irregularities".

Yemeni Transport Minister insists the plane had recently undergone a thorough inspection overseen by Airbus and conformed to international standards while a Yemenia Air spokesman stated poor weather was more likely to have been a factor in the crash than the condition of the plane.

This is the second air tragedy in the course of a month involving large numbers of French citizens.

On 1 June an Air France Airbus 330 traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris plunged into the Atlantic, killing all 228 people on board. The cause of this crash remains unknown.

 

 

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