Black box of Yemeni airliner found- official
The Source: al-motamar.net - 01/07/2009
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One of the black boxes from a Yemeni airliner has been located, a Yemeni official said Wednesday a day after the airplane crashed into the Indian Ocean off the Republic of Comoros. Recovering the box will take place soon, the official said.
On the other hand the Yemeni Airways Comp [any announced its intention to pay 20 thousand euro each of the victims family as a preliminary compensation.
Head of the board of directors of the Yemenia Company Abdulkhaliq al-Qadi said in a press conference he held at Sana’a International Airport the company would take one person from each family of the crashed plane victims to Moroni to follow up developments in the efforts of search and recovering of bodies , reiterating his confirmation that the crashed Yemeni plane was safe and it was maintained before its taking off from Sana’a and there was not any fault in it in addition to being maintained two months ago under supervision of a team from the manufacturing company.Early on Tuesday, an Airbus 310-300 run by the Yemenia Airlines came down in bad weather with 153 passengers and a crew onboard.
A few of the missing people have been recovered so far. While only a 14-year-old French girl survived. She is now being hospitalized in a Moroni hospital.
Rescue teams from Yemen, France and African states near the crash site are continuing search for bodies and debris. Early today, two US planes and two French ships joined search.
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