Pieces of Yemenia plane wreckage found near 2 Kenyan islands
The Source: al-motamar.net - 13/07/2009
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The Yemeni Higher Committee for Follow-up Civil Aviation Accident said on Sunday it has received a statement from the search and rescue team in Moroni informing
that Kenyan authorities have found parts of the crashed Yemenia Airbus 310 plane offshore two Kenyan islands.The Committee affirmed that the Yemeni Charge d’Affaires in Tanzania reported to it that Tanzanian authorities received report from Kenyan authorities found parts of the plane debris offshore Mombasa.
On the other hand Yemenia Airways announced on Sunday that the first flight to transport relatives of the crashed plane's victims will take off on Monday morning from Paris to Moroni.Director of Yemenia Regional Office in France, Switzerland and Belgium Faysal Emran said that two persons of each victim's family would be transported to Moroni, adding that other plane would transport the second group of the victims' families in the next two weeks.Yemenia has chartered a plane of French Blue Line Airline to carry the victims' relatives from Paris to Moroni.Blue Line Airline has been selected by the victims' relatives and in coordination with French Foreign Ministry and the Comorian embassy in Paris, Emran said.It is scheduled that representatives for the Yemeni and Comorian embassies in France would also be on the same flight in addition to a delegation from the French Foreign Ministry in order to communicate with families of the plane’s French victims
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