French Navy Dispatched to Crash Site

The French navy has released images of vessels it is sending to a site near Comoros where a Yemenia plane crashed with 153 people onboard. Meanwhile, Yemeni airline releases the passenger list in Paris. Here's more on the story.

Two French navy ships are expected to arrive on Wednesday morning at the site near Comoros where a Yemenia plane crashed Tuesday morning.

Photos released by the media section of the French defence department showed file images of the vessels currently on their way to the scene.

The French military has sent army and civilian medical teams, boats and divers to the crash site. Comoros authorities sent small speedboats.

Meanwhile in Paris, Yemenia released a list of passengers onboard the Airbus plane that crashed.
153 people were onboard the plane including 142 passengers and 11 crew members.

[Mohamed Lihoma, French Resident "I was given this list to see whether I could recognise someone if bodies were found later, to indicate how they were dressed, so as to identify the bodies. That's why we were given those lists".

Many of the passengers were families from France's large Comoran community who were travelling home for the holidays.

[Rohff, Franco-Comoran]
"Since my childhood I have been hearing about this airline, people say it's a flying trash bin, that it does not comply with international safety standards. The head of the Comoran diaspora had told this to the Comoran
authorities, but nothing has ever been done about it. It doesn't surprise me, but it is a shame to have to go through this. 153 people died".

Many of the passengers began their journey in Paris or Marseille aboard a different Yemenia plane, an A330. They switched to the A310-300 in Sanaa.

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[saramynah]

Lihoma all comorians are in choked abpout this humiliation from yemenia

[saramynah]

what do you mean here we go again it's look like you didn't loose any member of your family man shame on you