Part 37: Comoros

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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

 Pictured above is the accident aircraft

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Pictured above is the accident aircraft.

Yemenia Flight 626, registered as 7 Oscar- Alpha Delta Juliet (7O-ADJ), it was an Airbus A310-324 twin engine jet airliner that was operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international passenger flight from Sana'a International Airport (IATA: SAH, ICAO: OYSN), Sana'a, Yeman to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport (IATA: HAH, ICAO: FMCH), Comoros, when the flight crashed on the 30th of June 2009 at around 1:50am local time (10:50pm on the 29th of June UTC) while the plane was on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport, the crash killed all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board, the sole survivor was a 12 year old girl named Bahia Bakari, she was found clinging to wreckage after she was floating in the ocean for thirteen hours, Bakari was discharged from hospital on the 23rd of July 2009.

The aircraft was on approach to the airport, and it was scheduled to land on Runway 20, the aircraft continued past the point at which the approach required it to turn and then the aircraft made a left turn towards the north and the plane went off course, the aircraft then stalled and crashed into the ocean.

The summary of the crash was stalled on approach due to pilot error.

Below is a video which explains what happened that night, video credit goes to Disaster Breakdown on Youtube, video is done by Chloe Howie.



Below is another video which explains what happened that night, video credit goes to The Flight Channel.

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