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Mensaje de c6po - Enviado el 30 Jun 5:46

I really hope this is not the start of a long series.. A310 yemenite airlines went down in the ocean around the comores islands. 153 persons on board.
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Mensaje de speedbird9468 - Enviado el 30 Jun 13:52

I know its bad to assume. But I still think the terrosts are in action again. There are some facts and numbers that appear rather common. IE 30 days after the AF 330 goes down. As far as I know this A310 was also in bad weather. Just seems a little strange.
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Mensaje de Mabel - Enviado el 30 Jun 15:05

The reports I've seen indicate (1) the aircraft was attempting to land in 50 mph winds and (2) the A310 in question was recently inspected by French aviation authorities and found to have numerous mechanical issues...the reports didn't indicate exactly what they were. Yemen is a country notorious for producing and harbouring terrorists, but I don't think terrorism was a factor in this tragedy.
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Mensaje de c6po - Enviado el 30 Jun 17:18

I don't believe in a terrorist act, the plane wasn't in a very good shape, bad weather, no FBW or computer assistance to land easily in bad conditions etc.. Plus what would be the point of terrorists to blow up comorians ? It's not symbolic enough, I mean it wouldn't hurt the western world as hard as blowing up a qantas or UA or BA plane, even if this sounds a bit cynical. And the french already have to mourne their victims of the 447 crash. I read the pilots attempted to land once and tried again and then crashed 5 minutes after announcing to the CT they were preparing their final approach to land
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Mensaje de speedbird9468 - Enviado el 30 Jun 17:34

Mabel. unfortunately it came down from the cruise. About 1 hr from landing.
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Mensaje de speedbird9468 - Enviado el 30 Jun 17:35

The flight came from France thats why. Apparantley their were many French nationals on board
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Mensaje de c6po - Enviado el 02 Jul 22:10

wrong speedbird. it flew from yemen where they switched from A330 to A310 and crashed before landing. Fact.
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Mensaje de speedbird9468 - Enviado el 02 Jul 2:36

Yes your right. Also the Yemenia Fleet doesn't consist of A330's. Ony A310's and 737-800's in addition there weere many french people on that flight. So the flight originated in Paris. They just changed planes.
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Mensaje de c6po - Enviado el 02 Jul 9:19

france yemen: A330 (check the fleet, they got 2 of them) yemen comorian islands: A310 they fly decent planes in and out of europe and use sometimes junk planes elsewhere, which was the case. the airbus A310 wouldn't have taken off from France for security reasons linked to its poor general state. the company was warned about this and that's the reason why, since French authorities expressed their concern about maintenance issues for this particular plane, it never flew back to Europe, using A330 instead.
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Mensaje de speedbird9468 - Enviado el 02 Jul 15:55

I stand corrected i just looked at their website. Their paint scheme reminds of the late Dan Air
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Mensaje de Spookeytookey - Enviado el 03 Jul 15:26

this aircraft was also banned from french territory...
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Mensaje de EK404 - Enviado el 16 Jul 23:40

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