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More pieces of aircraft located
SANA'A, July 04 (Saba) - Searchers for the wreckage of the Yemenia
aircraft which came down in bad weather on Tuesday in the Indian
Ocean have located a large piece of the airplane.
The piece has been seen floating in waters.
Searchers including US helicopters are now retrieving the piece, the
Committee on Monitoring Aviation Accidents said in a statement.
Earlier, the committee said some peieces of the aircraft were picked
up of Moroni, capital of Comoros.
The Yemenia Flight IY 626 crashed in the ocean on Tuesday morning
with 153 passengers and crew members aboard.
Only a French teenager survived the tragedy, with few bodies
recovered so far.
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