almotamar.net, - The Yemeni cabinet asked the Higher Committee set up under chairmanship of the Transport Minister to follow up operations search and recovering as well as investigations in the incident of the Yemeni plane crash offshore the Comoros and to continue in efforts of follow-up, search and relief with the brothers in the Comoros and the French friends and to report to the cabinet on the developments.
In its regular meeting on Tuesday presided over by premier Dr Ali Mohammed Mujawar, the cabinet praised cooperation the Comoros authorities and the French naval rescue teams in the search operations for the missing and recovering bodies of the victims.
The cabinet got acquainted with preliminary reports on the A 310-300 plane crash incident before its landing at Moroni airport early Tuesday. The cabinet also expressed condolences to families of the airplane crash victims.
In the same context the Yemeni Airways Company confirmed that the A 310 plane was not banned in Europe or France. Captain Mohammed al-Samri, deputy director general of the Yemeni Airways has made it clear that the plane as subjected to overall maintenance according to international standards and passed the comprehensive checking under supervision of representative of the Airbus Company in Yemen and its maintenance was finished on 2 May 2009.
26september.net has quoted Tuesday sources at the Yemenia Airways as saying that the plane crew included 11 persons; six Yemenis and five hostesses of Moroccan and Ethiopian nationalities.