SANA'A, July 03 (Saba) - Minister of Transport Khaled al-Wazir flied on Friday for Paris to convey the condolence to the French government and people on the victims of the crashed Yemeni airliner.

A Yemeni airplane crashed in the early hours of last Tuesday into the Indian Ocean off the Comorian coasts. It was carrying 153 passengers including three infants and a crew of 11.

In spite of the intensive search and rescue operations that French and American planes have participated in, only one girl, 11, has survived form the plane crashed.

About 153 passengers were onboard, 75 were Comorian, 65 French, a Canadian and a Palestinian as well as the 11-memebr crew of the plane, who are 6 Yemenis, two Moroccans, an Indonesian, an Ethiopian and a Philippine.

The Yemenia Airway Company Abdul-Khaliq al-Qadhi has announced that the company would give a preliminary compensation amounted to € 20 thousands for each family of its plane crash's victims.

It also reaffirmed that the crashed aircraft had no technical faults and undergone maintenance before taken off Sana'a airport as well as had been checked two months ago under the supervision of technical team from the manufacturer company.

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