Alleged scorpion hampers Yemenia plane at Paris Airport
The Source: PARIS/hadhramaut.info/sabanews.net - 16/10/2010
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Well-informed sources have said that the French authorities of the Paris airport delayed on Friday a flight of Yemenia Airways for 24 hours because of a false alarm in the presence of a scorpion inside the plane Describing the inspection procedures took by the French authorities as abuse, the sources said that they hampered the flight’s departure in time and caused significant losses to the Yemenia, Yemen’s national airline.The Airbus-310 plane was carrying 194 passengers in its Paris-Cairo-Sana’a flight.A passenger from the Comoros told the France authorities of the Paris airport the presence of a scorpion inside the Yemenis Airbus -310 after landing at the Paris airport.The sources stressed the French authorities did not find the alleged scorpion, adding it was abuse and distortion of the Yemenia Airways.‘’These procedures are an extension of arbitrary measures repeatedly done several times against the Yemenia Airways at airports of France and Britain, especially since the crash of a plane of the Yemenia on June 30, 2009 in the Comoros’’, the sources were quoted by almotamr.net.In June 2009, a Yemenia Airbus-310 plane, flying to the capital of the Comoros, Moroni, fell into the sea a few miles short of its destination. The flight had originally taken off from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport for Sana'a.
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