Passenger jet disappears near Comoros
2009-06-30 07:10
Paris - An Airbus A310 operated by the Yemeni state carrier Yemenia Air has disappeared between Yemen and Comoros, an airport source here said on Tuesday.
The aircraft - which was due to have landed in the capital of the Indian Ocean archipelago around 23:00 GMT on Monday - vanished from radar screens, said the airport source.
The flight started at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport on Monday when an Airbus A330-200 aircraft took off with 147 passengers on board and flew to the southern French city of Marseille and then on to Sanaa in Yemen.
At Sanaa, passengers changed to an Airbus 310 and departed for Moroni via Djibouti.
A crisis task force was set up at Charles de Gaulle airport.
The nationalities of the passengers on board the missing aircraft was not known.