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Two kids survived plane crash in Indian Ocean

01 July 2009 09:43 (UTC +04:00)

Baku â€“ APA. Comoros police said a 14-year-old girl was rescued alive today from the wreckage of Yemeni Airbus 310 that crashed trying to land in the Comoros islands, APA reports quoting Yemen Post.
"A doctor from the military hospital aboard one of the rescue boats called the Mitsamiouli hospital to tell them a child had been rescued alive," Halidi Ahmed Abdou, a doctor at a medical centre opened for survivors, told Reuters.
According to the crisis centre in Comoros, the 14-year-old girl was from a village in the centre of the Indian Ocean archipelago.
On the other hand, Al Arabiya tv channel said a 14 years old boy and a five years old were rescued.
Comoros Communications Minister, Abdourahim Said Bakar, declared that earlier reports mentioned the rescued child was five were wrong.
Five bodies have also been retrieved, along with debris from the plane, but no other survivors have been recovered so far.
Earlier, announced that the jet pilot, Khaild Hajib was rescued alive but informed sources in Yemen Transport said there is no confirmed news about it and most probably he was among deaths
26 of the identified bodies were Comorian, 66 French, a Palestinian, and a Canadian as well as a crew of 11 including six Yemenis, two Moroccans, an Indonesian, an Ethiopian and a Pilipino.
According to a press release issued today by the on the circumstances of the crash of the Yemeni Airways passenger plane (Airbus 300-310) flight (IY 626), the passengers were (139 +3 infants +11 crew). The release also mentioned that weather was turbulent and wind speed was (61) kilometers.
The plane crashed between 15 and 20 kilometers off the north of Grande Comoros Island early Tuesday morning after having aborted an attempt to land at the airport in Moroni, in bad weather.
A former French colony said the tragedy has come two years after aviation officials reported faults with the plane on the last leg of a flight from France to Comoros, a former French colony.