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Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310-300, crashes into the Indian Ocean near Comoros, killing 152 of the 153 people on board. A 14-year-old girl named Bahia Bakari survives the crash.
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Yemenia Flight 626
2009 aviation accident near Comoros
Yemenia Flight 626 was a flight on an Airbus A310-324 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sana'a in Yemen to Moroni in Comoros, when it crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 am local time while on approach to…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Airbus A310
Short-fuselage derivative of the Airbus A300 airliner
The Airbus A310 is a wide-body airliner designed and manufactured by Airbus Industrie GIE, then a consortium of European aerospace manufacturers. Airbus had identified a demand for an aircraft smaller than the A300, the first twin-jet wide-body. On 7 July 1978, the A310 was…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Indian Ocean
Oceanic division
The Indian Ocean is the third-largest of the world's five oceanic divisions, covering 70,560,000 km2 (27,240,000 sq mi) or approximately 20% of the water area of Earth's surface. It is bounded by Asia to the north, Africa to the west and Australia to the east. To the south it is…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Comoros
African island country in the Indian Ocean
The Comoros, officially the Union of the Comoros, is an archipelagic country made up of three islands in Southeastern Africa, located at the northern end of the Mozambique Channel in the Indian Ocean. Its capital and largest city is Moroni. The religion of the majority of the…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
Bahia Bakari
Sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626 crash in 2009
Bahia Bakari is a French woman who was the sole survivor of Yemenia Flight 626, an Airbus A310, which crashed into the Indian Ocean near the north coast of Grande Comore, Comoros on 30 June 2009, killing the other 152 people on board. Twelve-year-old Bakari, who had little…Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)
June 30
Day of the year
June 30 is the 181st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 184 days remain until the end of the year.Source: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA)