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Another Airbus Plane Crash

by Phantom Ace ( 11 Comments › )
Filed under Middle East at June 30th, 2009 - 7:10 am

This is the 2nd Airbus crash in less than 3 weeks. This time it is a Yemenia Airlines  that crashes over the Indian Ocean while trying to land on the  Comoros Island.

SAN’A, Yemen – A passenger jet carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean in bad weather early Tuesday while trying to land at the island nation of Comoros. Officials said one child was plucked alive from the sea.

The Airbus 310 operated by Yemenia was flying the last leg of a journey taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen. Most of the passengers were from Comoros, returning from Paris. Sixty-six on board were French nationals.

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Airlines should buy Boeing, they are better planes.


Air France plane disappears over the Atlantic

by Phantom Ace ( 7 Comments › )
Filed under World at June 1st, 2009 - 8:08 am

This is a tragedy that really bothers me. As a person who travels frequently by plane it is one of my biggest fears.

Air France Jet Is Feared Lost on Flight From Brazil to Paris

PARIS — An Air France passenger jet traveling from Rio de Janeiro to Paris disappeared after its electrical systems malfunctioned during a storm with heavy turbulence on Sunday evening, and officials said Monday that a search had begun for the wreckage near a small archipelago off the Brazilian coast.

This is really sad and it makes you realize how fragile one’s existence is.