emenia airliner hit by French missile
The Source: www.sabanews.net - 24/10/2009
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A rocket has been blamed for the crash of a Yemenia jetliner into the Indian Ocean in late June, Almotamar website said Saturday. Aviation experts and investigations into the flight data recorders confirmed that a rocket fired by one of the French naval ships in the region caused the disaster in which more 152 passengers and crew members were killed, the website cited informed sources as saying.Under these crucial outcomes, Yemen intends to ask France to compensate the Yemenia Airways Company and the families of the victims.After the tragedy, which took place off the Comoros Islands, reports quoted Comorian officials as accusing the French Naval Ships of attacking the airplane while conducting a military exercise in the region.A Comorian official then said that France's envoy to Comoros had told them French warships that belonged to the French Fleet were found in the crash site a day before the crash.A missile might hit the airbus A300, the French diplomat was quoted as saying then.On June 30, the airplane plunged into the Indian Ocean killing all who were onboard except a French teenager.The flight data recorders were retrieved by a U.S. ship equipped with an underwater robot on August 30, two months after the fall and taken for the Paris-based investigator panel.The panel included Yemeni, French and Comorian interrogators.The Yemenia Airways compensated the angry families of the victims, about € 20.000 each.
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