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5 hrs ago | Pretoria News

Crashed jet tried to land, say witnesses

Moroni - Witnesses said they saw a Yemenia airline Airbus jet try to make a landing at Moroni airport before it crashed in the sea early Tuesday with 153 people aboard.

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9 hrs ago | Earth Times

EXTRA: Pilot of the Yemenia plane did not send distress signal

Sana'a, Yemen - The Yemen Airways plane that crashed off the Comoros islands with 153 people on board did not issue a distress signal or report any mechanical problems, a company official said on Wednesday.

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20 hrs ago | Hartford Courant

Teen Air Crash Survivor Clung To Debris In Ocean For 12 Hours

The 14-year-old girl believed to be the only survivor of a Yemenia jetliner crash off Comoros was thrown from the plane amid darkness, she tells her father.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, World News, Africa, Yemen, Travel, France Travel

Yesterday | Manawatu Evening Standard

Comoros survivor reunited with father

SOLE SURVIVOR: Bahia Bakari, the only survivor of the Yemeni jet that crashed neared Comoros, has returned to France and been reunited with her father.

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Thu Jul 02, 2009

News24

No bodies from Comoros crash

Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi said on Thursday that rescuers had yet to recover any bodies from the site of the Yemenia plane crash, and appealed for more international help.

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Earth Times

Search on for victims, black boxes of Comoros crash - Summary

Paris/Johannesburg - The search for victims of Tuesday's Yemen Airways crash off the Comoros islands continued for a second day Wednesday as the only known survivor prepared to return home, amid contradictory accounts about the plane's black boxes.

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People's Daily Online

Causes of Yemeni air crash yet to be determined

After rescuers found a child survivor who was pulled alive from the sea, the cause of the crash of an Yemeni jetliner with more than 150 people on board off Comoran coasts remains elusive.

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Related Topix: Boat Disaster, World News, Yemen, Middle East, Africa

WWUP-TV Cadillac

Iranian investigation?...Crash survivor...Island dream job

An Iranian militia reportedly wants an investigation into what role opposition leader Mir Hossein Mousavi may have played in recent street protests.

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Wed Jul 01, 2009

WGNTV Chicago

Pilots: Yemeni airliner may have been attempting go-around after missed aproach

The Yemenia Airbus 310 that crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros may have been attempting a go-around in rough weather for another approach when it hit the sea, a pilots association says.

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BBC

Comorans 'warned of flight safety'

For the 80,000 Comorans living in the southern French city of Marseille, the loss of Flight IY626 has been met not only with sadness, it has been met with fury.

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BBC

Ties that bind: Comoros and France

Many of the passengers on board a Yemenia Air plane that crashed on its way to the Comoros Islands were French - reflecting deep historical ties between the two nations.

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Daily News

Crashed jet tried to land, say witnesses

Moroni - Witnesses said they saw a Yemenia airline Airbus jet try to make a landing at Moroni airport before it crashed in the sea early Tuesday with 153 people aboard.

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Tue Jun 30, 2009

Independent Online

Condolences for Comoros crash victims

President Jacob Zuma extended his condolences on Tuesday to families who lost loved ones in the Yemenia Airways plane crash off the island of Comoros.

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China Daily

Yemeni plane crashes in sea off Comoros, bodies found

Map shows the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros, near where an airliner crashed.[Agencies] Highlights: * Bodies recovered from crashed Yemenia Airbus A310-300 * 142 passengers, 11 crew on board, no word on survivors * Passengers include nationals from France, Comoros MORONI: An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board crashed into ...

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KFSN

Plane with 153 crashes off Comoros,...

A Yemenia jet with 153 people on board crashed into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday as it tried to land during strong winds on the island nation of Comoros.

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Earth Times

EXTRA: Comoros: Fire seen coming from plane before crash

Sana'a, Yemen/Johannesburg - Flames were seen coming from the Yemen Airways plane that crashed off the Comoros islands in the early hours of Tuesday with 153 people abroad, a Comoran government spokesman told the German Press Agency dpa.

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Mon Jun 29, 2009

Canada.com

Yemeni plane with 150 people crashed in Indian Ocean

An airliner with 150 people on board belonging to Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air crashed in the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, a senior government official said.

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Tue Jun 23, 2009

International Monetary Fund

Union of the Comoros: Statement at the Conclusion of an IMF Staff Mission

An International Monetary Fund mission team visited Moroni during June 9-23, 2009, to assess the Union of Comoros' performance under the Emergency Post-Conflict Assistance program and hold discussions on a new program that could be supported by the IMF under the Poverty Reduction and Growth Facility .

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Thu May 21, 2009

Guardian Newspapers

Africa

Deby promises to wipe out Sudan-backed rebels A MID escalating conflict between the neighbours, Chad's President Idriss Deby Itno has vowed to wipe out rebels he said Sudan backs after Khartoum accused his country of more air strikes on its territory.

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Related Topix: Idriss Deby, World News, Africa, Ahmed Abdallah Sambi, US Politics, US News, 2008 Presidential Election, Barack Obama

Tue May 19, 2009

BalkanInsight.com

Union of the Comoros Recognises Kosovo

The Indian Ocean island nation of Comoros is the latest country to recongise Kosovo's independence, according to Kosovoa s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

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Related Topix: Africa, World News, Europe, Kosovo

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