"Rescuers were last night hailing the “miracle survival” of a single child after a passenger jet crashed into the sea off the Comoros Islands in the Indian Ocean. With the remaining 152 passengers and crew aboard Yemenia flight IY626 feared dead, it emerged that the aircraft had been the subject of an EU investigation two years ago.

Relatives were last night waiting for news in Paris, Marseille and Sana’a, the capital of Yemen, after officials said the airbus had plunged into the ocean short of its final destination on the island of Grand Comore.

The Yemenia flight’s complicated route had seen passengers collected on a different plane from Paris and Marseille before switching to the 19-year-old Airbus A310 in Sana’a to make the final leg of the journey to Comoros."

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