Rescue teams succeeded on Tuesday in finding a child survivor and retrieving some corpses of the victims of Yemeni airplane crash off Comoran coasts, official Yemeni news agency SABA reported on Tuesday.
An official Yemeni source told SABA that bad weather still impedes rescue efforts, the source said adding that rescue teams have also found parts of the ruins of the destroyed jetliner.
Comoran official source has earlier told Al-Jazeera TV that rescue teams found three corpses of the crash victims. The source noted that most of the French who were onboard are French-Comoran citizens.
Meanwhile, SABA said that a Yemeni technical team headed to Comoran Capital Moroni on Tuesday to start investigations on the accident.
A Yemeni airliner (Airbus A310) with more than 150 people on board crashed in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday before landing in Moroni, capital of Comoros.
Flight 626 flew to Moroni from Sanaa at 8:00 p.m. local time, Monday. The plane is scheduled to land at the islands on 23: 59 p. m. local time.
The accident is the first for the Yemeni airlines since being established in 1962.
(Xinhua News Agency June 30, 2009)
