Comoros News

The remains of suspected victims of last week's Yemeni airliner crash were found Thursday by fishermen off the Comoros islands, officials said.

The crash of a Yemeni passenger jet en route to the Comoros islands late on Monday night, killing up to 152 people, has raised serious concerns about the co-ordination of international air safety standards.

The government of the Comoros islands, where 152 people perished last week in a Yemen Airways plane crash, said Wednesday that Tanzanian authorities had alerted it to the discovery of a number of bodies in Tanzanian waters.

Comoran military officers salute during a prayer session for passengers in the missing Yemenia A310-300 aircraft and to mark the country's 34th independence anniversary in Moroni.

Dar es Salaam - Thirteen bodies and debris suspected to be from Yemenia jet that crashed off the Comoros last week have been found on a Tanzanian island, authorities said on Wednesday.

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.

Speedboats whisked French navy divers to the site of an Indian Ocean plane crash to search Monday for the black boxes belonging to Yemenia Airways Flight 626.

Yemeniaa s ill-fated planea s two black boxesa location has been detected and they will be recovered when the equipment arrives in the next few hours, said Hamid Faraj, the General Aviation Authority Manager today.

GEOGRAPHY The Comoros archipelago lies in the Indian Ocean between the southeast African coast and the island of Madagascar.

A Comoran official says a body has been found in the Indian Ocean but it is not related to the Yemenia Airways plane crash that killed 152 people last week.

A Comorian official on Saturday unveiled that his country does not rule out that the Yemeni airliner that crashed near the airport of the Comorian capital Moroni to have hit with a missile from one of the French Navy ships and that caused its immediate crash.

Bodies and debris from a Yemeni flight, which crashed about 8 to 12 km off Comoros early on Tuesday morning, have reportedly been found.

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.

Paris - French President Nicolas Sarkozy named a special envoy on Friday to liaise with families of victims of the Yemenia crash off the Comoros, after they accused his government of ignoring their needs.

Rescuers recount how they saved Comoran girl who survived crash survivor MORONI, Comoros A rescuer says he lost his fear of the raging ocean when he saw a young girl calmly clinging to the wreckage of a downed airliner.

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.

Then they spotted a girl impossibly clinging to a piece of debris. Cyrille, a merchant marine from Madagascar, had been heading with a team of rescuers toward a distress signal after the plane crashed Tuesday in the Indian Ocean off the coast of this former French colony.

YEMENIA is suspending all flights to the Comoros in the aftermath of Tuesday's crash of an Airbus A310 near the islands' capital Moroni in which 153 died, the airline said on Saturday.

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.

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.