Airbus A310-300 Crash at Indian Ocean

Bodies of at least five victims from Airbus A310-300 crash had been recovered, along with the plane debris, reported Yemeni authorities. One live child was also reportedly rescued as the SAR teams searching for survivors of the Airbus crash near the island nation of Comoros.

Yemenia Air Flight 626 was en route from the Yemeni capital of San'a to the island nation of Comoros when it crashed over the Indian Ocean. The flight with 142 passengers and 11 crew originated in Paris on an Airbus A330 and stopped in Marseille before continuing the flight to Yemen, where the passengers and crew transferred to an Airbus A310-300.

The second Airbus plane went down as it approached the Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport in Moroni in heavy winds 12 miles from the coast of the island, the Yemeni authorities reported.

The Tuesday accident is the second major crash involving an Airbus jet flying to or from France this month. On June 1, an Air France flight from Rio de Janeiro to Paris crashed in the Atlantic, killing all 228 people aboard. The French air accident investigator was expected to publish its preliminary report on that accident Thursday.