Search teams have found the cockpit voice recorder -- the second flight data recorder -- of the Yemenia jet that crashed off the Comoros islands on June 30, killing 152 people. The first recorder was located on Friday.
The flight data recorder from the Airbus A310 operated by Yemenia Airlines that crashed on June 30 off the Comoros, killing 152 people, has been found, the chief investigator has said.
Yemenia Airways was not included on a new European Union aviation blacklist released on Tuesday despite safety concerns raised since a June 30 crash into the Indian Ocean that killed 152 people.
A specially chartered flight carrying about 180 relatives of the Yemenia crash victims arrived in Moroni on Monday, where the grieving passengers were greeted by Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi.
About 75 relatives of victims of the Yemenia crash in the Indian Ocean have boarded a flight from France to the Comoros. The specially chartered flight will make a stop-over in Marseille, where another 100 relatives are expected to board.
More than 150 relatives of victims of the Yemenia crash in the Indian Ocean will head from France to the Comoros on a specially chartered flight, the French foreign ministry has said.
In a meeting with French Prime Minister Francois Fillon (photo centre), Comoros President Ahmed Abdallah Sambi urged France to increase efforts to recover the black boxes of the Yemenia Airbus that crashed off the Indian Ocean's island coast.
Ten days after the Yemenia Airbus crash, the Comoros Islands remain in mourning. FRANCE 24 reporters went to Samba Kouni where the search for clues behind the crash continues.
Nine more bodies of victims from the Yemenia Airbus crash near the Comoros islands in the Indian Ocean were found on a remote Tanzanian island on Thursday, according to officials.
In the aftermath of the June 30 crash of Yemenia Airbus A310, France has called for a world aviation blacklist of companies that fail to meet safety standards, warning the Yemeni carrier that its name is on the line.
