Yemenia Airbus crash: Five-year-old child pulled from water alive


	Yemenia Airbus crash: Five-year-old child pulled from water alive

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6-30-2009 10:43 AM

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2nd airbus crash this month, weather related

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"We never had problems with the plane. [The accident] was purely weather," Yemenia Chairman Abdulkalek Saleh Al-Kadi said in a telephone interview from Sana'a.

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