Yemenia Boeing 727
The Yemenia Airbus A310 crash in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros follows an overhaul inspection of safety procedures, which took place at Yemenia Airline.
The inspection was carried out in a bid to avoid being blacklisted by the European Union.
According to Air Transport Intelligence the airline has been scrutinised in the past many times before, after concerns emerged two years ago during ramp inspections of its aircraft in Germany, France and Italy.
The last reported incident of Yemenia took place in August 2001 at Asmara Airport in Eritrea.
It is said that a Boeing 727 of Yemenia airline approached Asmara Airport during favourable weather conditions shortly after it encountered some rainfall.
The wet asphalt of the runway caused the airplane breaks to malfunction during touchdown causing the aircraft to overrun the runway, which made the aircraft slid 200 meters before coming to a rest.
The aircraft was damaged beyond repair, the main landing gear is said to have failed after colliding with a large block of concrete. The 107 passengers and 4 crew on board of the Boeing 727 have escaped the crash with minor injuries.
Meanwhile, the Yemeni authorities have identified the nationalities of 93 passengers who were onboard the jetliner, which crashed in the Indian Ocean early on Tuesday.
It is said that 26 of the identified bodies were Comorian, 54 French, a Palestinian, and a Canadian as well as a crew of 11 including six Yemenis, two Moroccans, an Indonesian, Ethiopian and a Filipino.
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