Yemenia Flight 626

The aircraft crashed in Paris in 2005

IY 626 was the flight number of a line of flight of the Yemenia Yemen Sanaa to Moroni in the Comoros, the 142 passengers and 11 crew members crashed about 15 kilometers off the main island of Grande Comore in the Indian Ocean on 30 June 2009. The crash occurred at 1:50 local time clock ( 22:50 UTC) on landing.

Most of the passengers had begun their flight in Paris. The flight from Paris to Sanaa was carried out in an A330 -200. In Sanaa, the passengers got on the flight to Moroni to the Airbus A310, which then crashed on final approach to runway 20 of the airport Moroni. According to Yemenia came most of the passengers from France or from the Comoros.

Flight number

Especially in the European media was initially held the flight number IY626 often called the number IY749. IY749 is a scheduled flight Paris -Marseille- Sanaa. IY626 is the connecting flight Sanaa Djibouti Moroni. Since most of the passengers of the flight from Paris or Marseille came, they had booked the flight, in the number IY749.

Aircraft

The Airbus A310 -324 with the serial number 535 was delivered on 30 May 1990 at the Air Liberté and put into service.

Yemenia took over the aircraft in September 1999 and since then ran it under the aircraft identifier 7O - ADJ. Overall, the aircraft had accumulated some 51,900 flight hours in 17,300 flights. The aircraft was equipped with two turbines of the type Pratt & Whitney PW4152.

During an inspection in 2007, the French authorities submitted on to the aircraft deficiencies, after which it was no longer used in French airspace. The Yemeni Transport Minister Khaled Ibrahim al - Wazeer made ​​it clear that the aircraft had been subjected in May under the supervision of an Airbus inspection and corresponded to the international standard.

Search, rescue and recovery

According to the Comorian police the island nation does not have the options of a search and rescue operation at sea. France has sent two aircraft and a vessel of Mayotte and La Réunion from the crash site. The youth Bahia Bakari (according to contradictory information from different sources they had in the crash ranged in age from 12 to 14 years ) could be rescued after they had spent 10 hours floating on a piece of wreckage. Bodies and wreckage were spotted. On the morning of July 5, five days after the crash of the machine, the acoustic signals from the flight recorder could be located.