Comoros: Search for plane on

2009-07-07 14:14

Nairobi - A Comoran official says little debris and no bodies from the crashed Yemenia Airways plane have been found, but predicts that will change once the exact location of the plane's black boxes are pinpointed.

One 12-year-old girl survived by clinging to floating debris for up to 13 hours after the June 30 plane crash, but 152 other passengers and crew are still missing from Flight 626.

Comoran crisis centre spokesperson Col Ismail Mogne-Daho said few parts of plane have been found. French navy divers are at the Indian Ocean crash site to help in the search.

The absence of bodies or debris contrasts strongly with the Air France crash off the coast of Brazil on June 1. Fifty-one bodies and large pieces of debris have been recovered from that site.

- AP