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This plane crash takes us to the island nation of Comoros, which is located between Mozambique and Madagascar.
WARNINGS OF A PLANE CRASH
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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.
Yemenia Flight 626 was a flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sana'a in Yemen to Moroni in Comoros, when it crashed on the 30th of June 2009 at around 1:50 am local time (10:50 pm on the 29th of June UTC) while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (IATA: HAH, ICAO: FMCH), killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board. The sole survivor, 12-year-old girl Bahia Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean for thirteen hours. Bakari was discharged from the hospital on the 23rd of July 2009.
The final report on the incident concluded that the crew's inappropriate flight control inputs led to an aerodynamic stall. The report also noted that the crew did not react to the warnings being issued by the aircraft.
The aircraft was an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jetliner, registration 7O-ADJ (7 Oscar- Alpha Delta Juliet), manufactured in 1990 as serial number 535. It was in service for 19 years and 3 months, and had accumulated 53,587 flight hours on 18,129 flight cycles at the time of the accident.
Owned by the International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) the aircraft first entered service with Air Liberté on the 30th of May 1990. After leases to successive operators it was leased to Yemenia in September 1999, re-registered 7O-ADJ and remained in service with them until the accident.
Dominique Bussereau, the French Secretary of State for Transport, reported that the plane was inspected in 2007 by the French Directorate General for Civil Aviation and found to have a number of faults; since then, however, the aircraft had not returned to France, so it was never again inspected by the same authority.
Most of the passengers originated from Paris, where they had boarded Yemenia Flight 749 (an Airbus A330-200). There was a stopover at Marseille Provence Airport (IATA: MRS, ICAO: LFML) in Marseille, France, where additional passengers and crew boarded. After arriving at Sana'a International Airport (IATA: SAH, ICAO: OYSN) in Sana'a, Yemen, passengers transferred to an Airbus A310 for Flight 626, which was due to arrive at Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport in Moroni, Comoros, at 2:30 am local time on the 30th of June.
The flight crew consisted of Captain Khaled Hajeb (44), First Officer Ali Atef (50), and Flight Engineer Ali Salem, all of whom were Yemeni. The cabin crew included three Yemeni members, one from the Philippines, two from Morocco, one from Ethiopia, and one from Indonesia.
Captain Hajeb had been working for Yemenia since 1989 and became an A310 captain in 2005. He had 7,936 flight hours, including 5,314 hours on the Airbus A310. Hajeb had previously flown to Moroni 25 times. First officer Atef had been with the airline since 1980, and he was qualified to fly the Airbus A310 in 2004. Atef had 3,641 flight hours, with 3,076 on the Airbus A310 and had previously flown to Moroni 13 times.
