Yemeni Plane Crashes Off Comoros

[Ab-Titchaz]

Child found alive from crashed plane​

CNN

A young child has been recovered alive from a Yemeni jet crash in the Indian Ocean, an airline official said Tuesday.​

The child was the first person found alive from the Yemenia jet, which was carrying more than 150 people en route to the island nation of Comoros from Yemen's capital, Sanaa.

The child was found in the waters and was taken to a hospital, said Captain Abdulkhalek al-Kadi, chairman of Yemenia Airways.

"One child is alive and we hope to find more," the chairman said.
He blamed the crash on bad weather. "It was high seas and windy weather," he said.

A reconnaissance plane had earlier spotted traces of the Airbus A310-300 in the sea near the town of Mitsamiouli, Comoros Vice President Idi Nadhoim said Tuesday.

"There were no sign of survivors," he said before the child was found. "There are a few bodies floating and there is a lot of debris floating around."

The crash took place as the plane approached the Hahaya airport in Moroni. The plane tried but failed to land and then performed a U-turn before it crashed, Nadhoim said. Officials did not know why the plane could not land, he said

Source: Child found alive from crashed plane - CNN.com

 

[Cynic]

I think we have a right to be worried with AIRBUS planes ....

Wote wako sawa tu in terms of vulnerability to accidents. Hakuna cha Airbus, Boeing, Antonov..... Tena pengine za Airbus ni chache. Mfano ni hii record ya accidents za 2007

2007

January 1 – Adam Air Flight 574, a Boeing 737 with 102 people on board, crashes into the ocean off the island of Sulawesi in Indonesia, killing all on board.

January 9 – An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes near Balad, Iraq, killing 34 of the 35 people on board. The official cause of the crash is poor weather conditions, but other sources claim that the plane was shot down by a missile.

January 24 – Air West Flight 612, a Boeing 737 with 103 people on board, is hijacked over Sudan shortly after taking off from Khartoum, but lands safely in N'Djamena, Chad.

February 15 – An Air Mauritanie Boeing 737 is hijacked after taking off from Nouakchott, Mauritania, but lands safely in Las Palmas, Spain without any serious injuries among the 79 people on board.

February 18 – A Shuttle America Embraer ERJ-170 jet, operating as Delta Connection flight 6448, was substantially damaged when it overran the end of a snow covered runway while landing at the Cleveland Hopkins International Airport, Cleveland, Ohio. The airplane contacted the localizer antenna and a fence prior to coming to rest approximately 150 feet off the end of the runway. The captain, first officer, 2 flight attendants, and 70 passengers were not injured.

February 21 – Adam Air Flight 172, a Boeing 737, suffers structural damage while landing near Surabaya, Indonesia. None of the 149 people on board were seriously injured.

March 7 – Garuda Indonesia Flight 200, a Boeing 737, overshoots the runway and crashes while landing at Yogyakarta, Indonesia, killing 22 of the 140 people on board.

March 17 – UTair Flight 471, a Tupolev Tu-134, suffers severe structural damage while landing in Samara, Russia, killing six of the 63 people on board.

March 23 – A TransAVIAexport Airlines Ilyushin Il-76 crashes in Mogadishu, Somalia killing all 11 on board; the plane, which crashes during the Battle of Mogadishu, is thought to have been shot down.

March 30 – A Sudan Airways flight with 284 people on board is hijacked but lands safely in Khartoum, Sudan.

May 5 – Kenya Airways Flight 507, a Boeing 737 with 114 people on board, crashes near Douala, Cameroon killing everyone on board.

June 3 – A Paramount Airlines Mil Mi-8 helicopter crashes in Lungi, Sierra Leone killing all 22 people on board.

June 21 – A Free Airlines Let-410UVP crashes shortly after takeoff from Kamina Town, Democratic Republic of Congo due to severe overloading, killing 1 and injuring 4 of the 21 people on board.

June 25 – PMTair Flight 241, an Antonov An-24, crashes in southwestern Cambodia killing all 22 on board.

June 28 – A TAAG Angola Airlines Boeing 737, D2-TBP, with 78 people on board, loses control while landing and crashes in M'banza-Kongo, Angola, killing at least six people on board and injuring an unknown number of others.

The wreckage of TAM Airlines Flight 3054 July 17 – TAM Airlines Flight 3054, an Airbus A320, in São Paulo, Brazil killing all 187 people on board and 12 on the ground.

July 27 – Two news helicopters, both Eurocopter Ecureuils, one from KNXV-TV and one KTVK collide in Phoenix, Arizona in the United States, while covering a car chase. All on both helicopters, two from each, were killed.

August 9 – An Air Moorea de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter crashes on the island of Moorea in French Polynesia killing all 20 on board.

August 20 – China Airlines Flight 120, a Boeing 737, bursts into flames after landing at Naha, Japan. None of the 165 passengers were seriously injured.
Scandinavian Airlines 2007 Dash 8 landing gear incidents:

September 9 – Scandinavian Airlines Flight 1209, a de Havilland Canada Dash 8, experiences a landing gear failure in Aalborg, Denmark. None of the 73 people on board were seriously injured, but three days later, after a similar incident, the airline grounds the type.

September 12 – Scandinavian Airlines Flight 2748, a de Havilland Canada Dash 8, experiences a landing gear failure in Vilnius, Lithuania. None of the 52 people on board were injured, but due to a similar incident three days prior, all their Dash 8s are grounded.

October 27 – Scandinavian Airlines Flight 2867, a de Havilland Canada Dash 8, experiences a landing gear failure in Copenhagen, Denmark. None of the 44 people on board were injured, but due to similar incidents in September, the airline "permanently" removes its Dash 8s from service. Cause is eventually ascribed to maintenance error.

September 16 – One-Two-GO Airlines Flight 269, a McDonnell Douglas MD-82 carrying 130 people, crashes and bursts into flames after attempting to land in Phuket, Thailand during poor weather conditions killing 90 people.

October 4 – An Africa One Antonov An-26 crashes into a residential area Kinshasa, Democratic Republic of the Congo, shortly after taking off. At least 50 people are killed, most of whom were on the ground.

November 30 – Atlasjet Flight 4203, a McDonnell Douglas MD-83, crashes into a mountain near Isparta, Turkey killing all 57 on board.

 

[Mbu]

Wote wako sawa tu in terms of vulnerability to accidents. Hakuna cha Airbus, Boeing, Antonov..... Tena pengine za Airbus ni chache. Mfano ni hii record ya accidents za 2007

...sawa mkuu lakini recent records za Airbus compared to Boeing ndizo zinazotisha kina sie abiria wa midege hiyo.

Inasemekana Yemen air tayari walishakuwa kwenye 'borderline' kuchunguzwa 'reliability' ya midege yao kwenye anga za EU hususan France.

EU wants world aviation blacklist

Yemenia Air is not on the EU's blacklist, which is updated regularly.
Mr Tajani said he would contact Yemenia to "see what happened and to verify the level of safety" of its operations in Europe.

A French minister said faults were found on the same plane during a check in 2007.

source; http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8126431.stm

BTW, Yemen air bado inatua Tanzania? na ile A320 ya ATCL imeishia wapi vile?

 

[Mbu]

"From Paris to San'a everything is fine, by the book. But from San'a to Moroni, they board you like you were getting into a minibus in the bush, no one has assigned seats, it's first come, first serve," said Mouijui Abdou, a Comoran who went to Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport following news of the crash.

"Some people stand the whole way to Moroni," said Mohamed Ali, a Comoran who went to Yemenia's headquarters in Paris to try to get more information. "If you complain, Yemenia just says "If you want to get on, get on, if you don't, then find another flight."

source; http://www.newser.com/article/d9952f7o2/french-comorans-outraged-after-yemenia-air-crash.html

...maskini hawa wangazija, kumbe walikuwa wananyanyasika namna hii?

 

[Mbu]

...habari njema ni kwamba kuna kachanga kamoja kameokolewa hai huko baharini

kumradhi wakuu, habari zilizothibitishwa zinasema aliyeokolewa si kichanga kama ilivyoripotiwa awali bali ni binti wa miaka kumi na nne (14), mwenyezi mungu azidi kumpa umri mrefu wenye heri na yeye.

The Airbus 310 was attempting a second landing when it crashed.

The rescuer told France's Europe 1 radio of finding the girl.
"We tried to throw a life buoy. She could not grab it. I had to jump in the water to get her," he said.
"She was shaking, shaking. We put four sheets on her. We gave her hot, sugary water. We simply asked her name, village."

source; BBC NEWS | Africa | Girl survives Yemen plane crash

 

[Jafar]

Duuuu inatisha, kila kukicha ndege zinadondoka. Kuna haja ya ku-review safety standards measures.

 

[Magezi]

Ni vyema hizi Airbus ziangaliwe upya ni lazima kutakuwa kuna tatizo la kiufundi kwenye ndege hizo.Baada ya ile ajali kubwa ya Rio De Janeiro,kuna ndege nyingine mbili ambazo zilifanya emergency landing kutokana na matatizo ama ya moshi au moto katika ndege hizo, CEO wa kampuni ya Airbus, Mr.Tom Enders anadai kwamba ndege zake ni salama na amesisitizia kuwa Airbus A-330 ni salama na nzuri zaidi kwa sababu hamna rekodi yoyote kuhusiana na matatizo ya ndege hiyo;

June'13/2009. Ndege A-320 ililazimika kutua katika uwanja wa Shannon Baada ya kutoka Moshi katika Cabin ya abiria wa First Class,Ndege hiyo ya shirika la Northwest ilikuwa na abiria na wafanyakazi 285 na ilikuwa inatoka Rome kwenda Atlanta.

June'29/2009. Ndege A-330 Ilitua ghafla huko Guam,baada ya kuanza moto katika chumba cha marubani,ndege hiyo ya shirika la Jetstar (Qantas) ilikuwa inatokea Japan kwenda Australia,katika ndege hiyo kulikuwa na Abiria na Wafanyakazi 203.

Kuna kila sababu ya kuziangalia Ndege hizi kabla ya kusababisha ajali nyingine nyingi!Airbus wapo mbioni kuunda ndege nyingine kubwa Superjet A-380.

mbona A380 tayari inafanya kazi!!

 

[Pape]

MORONI (Reuters) – An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.

A 14-year-old girl was found alive in the sea, Comoros Communications Minister Abdourahim Said Bakar said. Earlier reports had said the rescued child was five.

The Paris airports authority said 66 French nationals were aboard the plane, which was flying the final leg of a trip from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen.

A Yemeni aviation official said there were also nationals from Canada, Comoros, Ethiopia, Indonesia, Morocco, the Palestinian territories, the Philippines and Yemen on the plane.

It is the second Airbus to plunge into the sea this month. An Air France Airbus A330-200 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean killing 228 people on board on June 1. A preliminary report on that crash is due on Thursday.

The Paris-Marseille-Yemen leg of the Yemenia flight was flown by an Airbus A330. In Sanaa, those passengers who were flying on to the Comoros changed onto a second Yemenia plane, the A310 that crashed.

FAULTS DETECTED

French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau said faults had been detected during inspections in France in 2007 on the Yemenia A310, and that it had not flown to France since.

"The A310 in question was inspected in 2007 by the DGAC (French transport authorities) and they noticed a certain number of faults," he told the I-tele television channel.

"The company was not on the black list but was subject to stricter checks on our part, and was due to be interviewed shortly by the European Union's safety committee."

"The question we are asking ... is whether you can collect people in a normal way on French territory and then put them in a plane that does not ensure their security. We do not want this to happen again," he said.

Yemen's transport minister said the plane was thoroughly checked in May under Airbus supervision.

"It was a comprehensive inspection carried out in Yemen ... with experts from Airbus," Khaled Ibrahim al-Wazeer told Reuters from Sanaa. "It was in line with international standards."

The EU suspended permission for Yemenia to maintain EU-registered planes in February after it failed a set of audit inspections, the EU's aviation safety agency told Reuters in Brussels.

The move would not have affected the doomed Airbus A310 plane since it was registered in Yemen. But it provides further evidence of European concerns over the airline's operations after the EU Commission said the plane which crashed had sparked an EU inquiry two years ago.

The EU's Transport Commissioner Antonio Tajani said it would contact Yemenia and planned to propose a global blacklist of airlines deemed unsafe.

Yemenia is 51 percent owned by Yemen and 49 percent by Saudi Arabia. Its fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s, four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s, according to its website.

French television showed pictures of friends and relatives of the passengers weeping at Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport, many of them railing at the airline.

Families arriving at the airport in Marseille, where there is a large Comoran community, were met by Comoros consul Stephane Salord.

"The Comorans save up for several months in the year to go to Comoros with their families. In this plane there were entire families, parents, children, elders who were with them."

AIRBUS INVESTIGATORS

Ibrahim Abdourazak, an official at a crisis center in Comoros, told Reuters the 14-year-old girl was from a village in the center of the Indian Ocean archipelago.

Earlier, a doctor in the Comoros had told Reuters a five-year old child had been plucked alive from the sea and taken to a medical center.

Airbus said it was dispatching a team of investigators to the Comoros. It said the aircraft was built in 1990 and had been used by Yemenia since 1999. Its engines were built by Pratt and Whitney, a unit of United Technologies.

A Yemenia official said there were 142 passengers including three infants, and 11 crew. The plane was flying to Moroni, capital of Grande Comore, the main island of the archipelago.

"The weather conditions were rough; strong wind and high seas. The wind speed recorded on land at the airport was 61 kph (38 mph). There could be other factors," Mohammad al-Sumairi, deputy general manager for Yemenia operations, told Reuters.

The French military sent army and civilian medical teams, boats and divers to the crash site aboard the plane from the Indian Ocean island of Reunion. Comoros authorities sent small speedboats.

France and the Comoros have enjoyed close ties since the islands' independence in 1975. France estimates 200,000 people from Comoros live in mainland France, and remittances from France are an important part of the islands' economy.

For a map showing the flight path of the airliner, go to:

http:/graphics.thomsonreuters.com/RNGS/JUN/CRASH.jpg

(Additional reporting by Richard Lough in Antananarivo, Inal Ersan in Dubai, David Clarke in Nairobi, Pascal Lietout, Anna Willard, Thierry Leveque and Guy Kerivel in Paris, Jean-Francois Rosnoblet in Marseille; Writing by David Clarke; Editing by Richard Balmforth)

 

[Mwawado]

Waziri wa ushirikiano wa kimataifa wa Ufaransa Alain Joyandet amemtembelea hospitalini msichana wa miaka 14, ambaye ndie pekee aliyenusurika hadi sasa katika ajali ya ndege ya shirika la ndege la Yemen katika visiwa vya Comoro.Hadi sasa hakuna taarifa zozote kuhusu watu wengine walionusurika.

Jana Jumanne maafisa wa Comoro walisema kuwa maiti tano zilipatikana kutoka baharini ambako ndege chapa Airbus A 310 ilianguka ikiwa na abiria 153 . Lakini taarifa zilizopatikana leo zinasema kuwa maiti hizo zilionekana zikielea baharini na kwamba waokoaji wamefanikiwa kupata maiti hizo hii leo.
Moja kati ya visanduku vyeusi, ambavyo ni vyombo vya kurekodia mawasiliano kati ya rubani na viwanja wa ndege kimefahamika kilipo na juhudi za kukipata zinaendelea.

Ishara za kisanduku hicho zimepatikana jana usiku.
Wakati huo huo kundi la Wakomoro wenye hasira leo wamezuwia kuruka moja ya ndege katika uwanjani wa ndege wa Charles de Gaulle mjini Paris. Maandamano hayo yanafuatia kuanguka kwa ndege ya shirika la ndege la Yemen katika visiwa vya Comoro. Waandamanaji hao wanadai kuwa shirika hilo la ndege linatumia ndege zisizo salama katika njia kuelekea Comoro.


Wanatufanya kama mbwa, tunapofika Yemen wanatubadilishia ndege, wanatuingiza kama kwenye mapango.


Shirika hilo la ndege la Yemen limesisitiza leo kuwa lina sera imara kwa ajili ya ukarabati wa ndege zake na kupinga minong'ono kuwa tatizo la kiufundi ndio limesababisha kuanguka kwa ndege hiyo.
Shirika hilo la ndege la Yemen limesema leo kuwa litalipa kwa familia za wahanga Euro 20,000 kama fidia ya mwanzo, wakati likisisitiza kuwa ndege hiyo ilikuwa na viwango vya usalama. Je wale waliopoteza wapendwa wao wanahisi nini kuhusu fidia hii iliyotangazwa na shirika hili la ndege. Anafafanua Salim Himid mkazi wa mjini Paris nchini Ufaransa ambaye ana asili ya visiwa vya Comoro.

Matumaini yanazidi kupotea kuwapata watu walionusurika katika ajali hiyo ya ndege, wakati vikosi vya uokozi vikiendelea na msako baharini kwa ajili ya kutafuta mabaki ya ndege hiyo.


Mwandishi Sekione Kitojo/DPAE.
Mhariri:Abdul-Rahman


Deutsche Welle/swahili.

 

[Daina]

Samahani wakuu msianze kunishambulia tafadhalli ila ni mawazo yangu tu mniweke sawa kiupole tu wajameni.Mie nahisi hizi ajali kama zina uhusiano wa karibu na freemason.Ni mawazo yangu jama jama chondeee!!!

 

[JosM]

baadhi ya mabaki ya miili ya waanga wa ajali ndege ya yemen ya mepetikana visiwa vya Mafia.Zimepatikana maiti nne ambazo zimearibika vibaya,ikiwemo moja ya mtoto anae kadiriwa kuwa na umri wa miaka mitano.

 

[Natty Bongoman]

maAIRBUS mengi yanaanguka cku izi... labda si mandege bora. Pia nilisikia watu wakilalamika kuwa ndege ziendazo Comoros na sehemu nyinginezo Afrika si nzuri sana...