The eight bodies of the crewmembers of the ill-fated Yemenia Airway jetliner, which crashed into the Indian Ocean last June, arrived in Sana'a last Tuesday.
The relatives of the dead as well as Yemenia Airway officials accompanied the bodies flown in from the Comorian capital Moroni.
The Chairman of the Board of Directors of Yemenia Airways, Captain Abdul Khaliq al-Qadi, said that the bodies that arrived on board a Yemenia flight, were identified as late Captain Khalid Hajeb , Assistant Captain Ali Atif , three Yemeni hosts , two Moroccan hostesses and an Ethiopian hostess.
Al-Qadi indicated that the five bodies of the Yemeni crewmembers would be buried in their hometown of Aden, except for the body of the host Hamdi Wazea, which would be buried in Sana'a. He also explained that the bodies of the Moroccan hostesses would be sent to Morocco and the body of the Ethiopian hostess to Addis Ababa.
He added that three of the crew staff are still missing. The three missing are Yemeni engineer Ali Salem, and an Indonesian and Filipino hostess.
The head of the Yemenia Airway delegation that accompanied the bodies, Wazir al-Ya'abori, emphasized that the Yemenia delegation took part in the funerals held in Comoros for the other victims last Sunday and Monday.
“About 54 bodies were buried in Moroni, the capital of Comoros, last Sunday and Monday,” al-Ya'abori said, adding that the delegation met with Comorian President Ahmed Abdullah Sambi, where they discussed the resumption of Yemenia Airway flights to Moroni.
Yemenia was the sole airway operating flights to Moroni from Yemen, however all flights were cancelled following the crash.
In related news, Yemenia could avoid a EU blacklist despite the crash. The European Union added all airlines from Djibouti, the Republic of Congo and Sao Tome and Principe to its airline safety blacklist last Friday, while Yemenia Airways avoided inclusion despite the fatal crash in June.
"The efforts deployed by Yemenia Airways to correct the identified safety deficiencies in the various audits have been acknowledged," the European Commission said in a statement.
"The list was extended to include all air carriers certified in Djibouti, Republic of Congo and Sao Tome and Principe because of safety deficiencies identified in the system of oversight by the aviation authorities of these countries," the statement added.
Source:yobserver.com
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