Jet Crashes in Indian Ocean

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: worshiPRaiserPDB</div><div class="ubbcode-body">This was my first question; when did it happen an how mi nuh hear nuttn pan TV. Shaking Mi Head - bwoy o bwoy. </div></div>Kill your TV.
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ok kool. Tanx

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<span style="font-size: 14pt"><span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'">Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crash</span></span>
By CECILE BRISSON and HELENE GOUPIL Associated Press Writer

Jul 3rd, 2009 | PARIS -- Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros on a route that saw a deadly crash this week after years of complaints about dangerous conditions to the Indian Ocean island nation.

Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday's accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines' Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the problems. They say that <span style="color: #CC0000"><span style="font-weight: bold">since 2004 they have been complaining about dangerous planes, unhelpful crews and stopovers in the Yemeni capital of San'a that last hours or days in stifling heat with little information and few basic services from the Yemeni airline.</span></span>

Dozens of protesters gathered outside Charles de Gaulle's Terminal 3 and blocked passengers entering the terminal, shouting at passengers not to take the Yemenia flight.

Only 72 passengers ended up boarding the plane, which has a capacity of 180, and the flight didn't take off until noon, three hours after its scheduled departure, an airport official said on condition of anonymity because she was not authorized to speak to the media. She said, however, that the protest did not appear to have caused the delay.

French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau warned that Yemenia risked inclusion on a European Union list of banned airlines.

Khaled el-Wazeer, the Yemeni transportation minister, said that his government will provide documents within a week showing how the airline deals with technical problems on planes, a measure the EU has called necessary to keep it off the blacklist.

On Thursday, hundreds of shouting demonstrators at Marseille's airport tried to block passengers from boarding a Yemenia flight to the Comoran capital.

The airline said it was indefinitely suspending its flights from the Mediterranean port city to Moroni.

&quot;SOS Trips to Comoros,&quot; a passenger group formed to push for better conditions, said that it had complained to airline officials as early as 2004 that planes on the route were unsafe.

Yemeni officials brushed aside the concerns, saying &quot;that if their planes didn't meet standards they wouldn't put their crew on it,&quot; member Zalifa Youssouf told The Associated Press by telephone Friday. Yemeni officials issued no public statement on the group's claims Friday.

Ships continued to search for survivors, bodies and wreckage from Yemenia Flight 626, which went down in heavy winds off the coast of the Comoros islands. Hopes of finding anyone alive in the choppy seas were dim.

A 12-year-old girl was rescued after clinging to floating wreckage for more than 13 hours, suffering from hypothermia, a fractured collarbone and widespread bruises to her face, elbow and foot. Her mother was presumed dead.

Bahia Bakari returned to France aboard a French government plane on Thursday and was hospitalized in Paris.

&quot;She is very lucid, very conscious (and) I was able to speak with her,&quot; President Nicolas Sarkozy told RTL radio after visiting her.

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Airlines make sure to put the dodgy planes on routes which are not frequented by &quot;westerners&quot;: see it here
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:</div><div class="ubbcode-body"> <span style="font-style: italic">&quot;But the uncomfortable truth is that we've almost got two-tier air safety,&quot; said Mr Daly, editor of the website Air Transport Intelligence. &quot;Airlines in the developed world are clearly safer, broadly, than those in the developing world.&quot; </span></div></div>

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<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: BlackStar</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Airlines make sure to put the dodgy planes on routes which are not frequented by &quot;westerners&quot;:</div></div>

The EU has very strict aviation safety regulations, and (unlike the FAA), they actively do &quot;ramp checks&quot; on forreign airlines that land in EU member states.
EU can ban a particular aircraft from entering it's territory, a fleet of aircraft, or ban the entire airline from flying there.

In the case of Yemenia, the aircraft was spot checked in the EU and there were some issues found.
So what Yemania did, was to send other of their total 10 aircraft to the EU, and keep this one away.

However, I doubt that this had anything to do with the crash.
I'm suspecting crew error at this point.


And by the way, I'm tired of the media talking about howling winds.
I've checked the weather and the winds were nothing out of the ordinary.

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The flight data recorder from the Yemenia Airlines Airbus A310 that crashed in to the Indian Ocean on June 30 off the Comoros Islands has been recovered. The plane plunged into the sea as it was trying to land in Moroni, killing 152 people. The only survivor was a 13-year-old girl, Bahia Bakari, More...