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Yemenia Airways flight blocked in Paris by protesters
Jul 1, 2009, 7:36 GMT
Paris - A group of angry Comorans Wednesday blocked the take-off of one of the carrier's aircraft from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, French television reported.
The protest followed Tuesday's crash of a Yemenia Airways plane near the Comoros Islands.
The demonstrators charged that the airline used unsafe planes on the route to the Comoros Islands, the destination of the Airbus A310 carrying 153 people which plunged into the Indian Ocean after trying to land in the Comoran capital, Moroni.
The crashed plane had been banned from landing on French soil in 2007 after the French Civil Authority (DGAC) detected a number of irregularities on the aircraft.
Airport authorities moved the takeoff to another terminal, and the plane took with about 100 passengers on its flight to Marseille and the Yemeni capital Sana'a, the same route as that of the plane that crashed.
However, it was agreed that the Airbus A330 leaving Paris would complete the flight to Moroni. On Tuesday, passengers transferred in Sana'a to the A310, a much older plane.
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