Dominique Bussereau, the French Transport Minister, was quoted by the London Times as saying; “The Airbus A310 that came down was a 19-year-old aircraft which had been banned from French air space since 2007 after an inspection at Paris airport found that it did not meet safety standards.”

After reading a child of 3 or 5 had survived the crash of IY-626, I wondered how a small child could tread water all night. It seemed unlikely, so I did not initially report it. There was in fact a survivor; however she was 14 years old, not 3. Sergeant Said Abdela, a member of [...]

It is now being reported that IY 626 crashed on the turn to final during an instrument approach just prior to midnight. The approach plate shows a minimum altitude of 3000 feet until intercepting the glideslope for runway 02 at Monroni (HAH). Debris of the Airbus 310-300 was reported to have been found by a [...]

The below statement is from their website. Yemenia regrets to announce the missing of its flight No. IY626 from Sana’a to Moroni with 142 passengers and 11 crew onboard ِAirbus 310-300 for more information contact the call center at 00967 1250800 or the emergency No 00967 1 250833

Reuters and CNN are reporting the down aircraft is an Airbus 310-300. Yemenia Flight 626 left Sanaa at 21:30 bound for Moroni with 143 passengers and 11 crew. It is believed to have crashed with in an hour of landing at Moroni on Comoros.

Yemenia Airline, the Flag carrier for Yemen, has lost an aircraft with 150 people on board. Limited information is available at this time; the Yemeni website has crashed. Yemenia does operate the Airbus 330-200 (2) and 310-300 (4), as well as Boeing 737-800 (4) aircraft. The type of aircraft that went down is currently unknown.

In the past the FAA has been less than enthusiastic about NTSB recommendations on enhancing crew rest. The new FAA Administrator Randy Babbitt has reversed that former posture. He has demanded inputs by 31 July. I applaud his tough stance; here is why:

A quick post from the Yucatan. Ive played the odds most of my life. After giving about 2 seconds consideration to the press hysteria my wife and I went on our planned vacation.

My webmaster/editor, LaVonne Ellis, has been dragging me (reluctantly) into the 21st century. I was pretty happy in the last one but alas, after last month’s Book Expo of America (in the city so nice they named it twice), it became painfully obvious that marketing would fall squarely upon me. To my children’s amusement, I [...]