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Relatives of plane crash victims to visit Comoros
[July 13, 2009] PARIS (AP) -- At least 150 family members of those who died on Yemenia Airways Flight 626 were flying to the Comoros Islands on Monday aboard a chartered French airplane.
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Yemenia organized the special flight for relatives of victims and its insurance company paid for it. Flight 626 crashed June 30 on its way from San'a, Yemen, to Moroni, Comoros. A 12-year-old girl was the only one of the 153 people on the plane to survive. Many of those aboard were from the French Comoran community and had embarked in Paris or the southern French town of Marseille. Madaly Aicha told Associated Press Television News at the airport in Paris that she was leaving for Comoros because it was the only way for her to accept that her mother was lost in the crash. "I feel that once I'm there I can really properly mourn her ... for now she is only away," Aicha said Monday. The plane was making a short stop in Marseille to board more passengers. France's Foreign Ministry has said the ambassador named to act as an intermediary for the relatives would travel with them. Yemen's aviation accident committee said investigators have found wreckage of the plane near the coast of Kenya and 27 bodies have been recovered. |
