(UPDATES) More than 3 million Euros compensation for Yemenia victims

YEMEN - A total of 3,060,000 Euros will be given as compensation to the families of the victims of Yemenia which crashed last Tuesday in the Indian Ocean nearby the Comoros coasts, said the board chairman of the Yemenia.

Each family will be given 20,000 Euros from the Yemenia as the first installment, said Abdul Khaleq al-Qadhi in a press conference held at Sana'a international airport Wednesday.

Al-Qadhi also said a person from each family will be chosen to go to the place of accident in Comoros to see the process of searching. He also said that the French Minister of Information will arrive in Moroni today Wednesday to know the latest developments in the searching process.      

The black box of the stricken airbus 300-310 was located and efforts were exerting to get it out later today, the official confirmed.

He said that the black box will be transferred to France where the data and details of the accident will be read.

Two American planes and two French ships arrived in Comoros Wednesday   to participate in searching for the bodies of the victims, the official added.

Al-Qadhi repeatedly said the accident had nothing to do with maintenance of the plane, which was made in 1990, has traveled 50,000 hours.  The plane was inspected less than tow months ago according to the international standards and under the supervision of the manufacturer, the airbus company.

The official called upon the international agencies and European Union not to exaggerate in pressuring on his airliner saying the accident was out of their control.

On his part, Mohammed Abdul Rahman, spokesman for the Yemenia, deputy of the General Authority of    Civil Aviation, said the survivor was a 14-year old girl not a 5-year old child as he said on Tuesday.

Earlier, the Yemeni aviation accidents’ follow up committee ensured that the surviving child who was found off the Moreno shores is French. Mohammed Abdurrahman, the Metrology and Civil Aviation Authority Deputy said at a press conference in Sana’a airport that the survivor child was taken to a hospital in Moreno and that she is now receiving intensive medical care there.

He added that 3 recovered bodies were also taken to the hospital’s morgue. He expected that more survivors will be found. Abdulkader pointed out that two American aircrafts joined the rescue operations as well as a ship, a French frigate and two professional submarines for looking for the plane victims.

He added that the weather is still bad, with strong winds and high waves.

 He ensured that the Yemeni plane matches the international aviation safety standards and terms. In response to the European Union’ comments of putting the Yemeni Airlines in their blacklist, he said that if they have evidence that the Yemenia does not match the international aviation’s standards they have the right to put it in their blacklist and prevent them from flying in their air, adding that, “ it is also our right to prevent any plane that does not match the international  safety standards." He confirmed that the plane was in regular flight to London last week, and there were not any observations concerning the safety requirements

 

Yemenia Airways Airbus 310-300, which was traveling from Sana'a  airport to Moreno airport, in the Comoros. The plane took off at 18: 45 gmt, (9:45 Sana’a local time.) Contact with the plane was lost at 1:51, Moreno local time.”

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