Yemen diver group flies for Moroni

SANA'A, July 02 (Saba) - A Yemeni diver group from the Special
Forces headed early on Thursday for the Comorian capital, Moroni.

The group will participate in the search and rescue operations for
remaining passengers of the Yemeni airliner crashed off the Comorian
coasts.

About 114 passengers, most of them Comorian, have flied in the same
flight that came from Paris, France, with about 87 passengers.

The Higher Committee for Aviation Accidents' spokesman Mohammed
Abdul-Qader announced on Wednesday that another technical team will
accompany the diver group take part in the investigations on the
airplane crash.

He said that French and American planes participate in the search
and rescue operations.

Except the 11-year French girl, no confirmations of new survivors as
media outlets reported, Abdul-Qader said.

He announced the nationalities of the Yemeni crashed airliner, whose
passengers were 153 persons, saying that 75 were Comorian, 65
French, a Canadian and a Palestinian as well as the 11-memebr crew
of the plane, who are 6 Yemenis, two Moroccans, an Indonesian, an
Ethiopian and a Philippine.

On the other hand, Chairman of the Board of the Yemenia Airway
company Abdul-Khaliq al-Qadhi has announced that the company would
give a preliminary compensation amounted to € 20 thousands for each
family of its plane crash's victims.

In a press conference held on Wednesday at Sana'a International
Airport, al-Qadhi said that Yemenia aircrafts will transfer a
passenger from each family's victim to Moroni City in order to
follow-up the search and rescue efforts for their families.

He also reaffirmed that the crashed aircraft had no technical faults
and undergone maintenance before taken off Sana'a airport as well as
had been checked two months ago under the supervision of technical
team from the manufacturer company.

In the early hours of Tuesday, a Yemeni airplane crashed into the
Indian Ocean off the Comorian coasts. It was carrying 153 passengers
including three infants and a crew of 11.