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France and U.S. join Comoros plane search



By Ahmed Ali Amir
01 July 2009 @ 08:48 am BST


A ship sails in the Indian Ocean near Comoros' capital Moroni
A ship sails in the Indian Ocean near Comoros' capital Moroni June 30, 2009. An Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into the sea off the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros as it approached in bad weather early on Tuesday, officials said.
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Regional air security body ASECNA said French investigators would come to Comoros to launch an inquiry.

ASECNA official Ibrahim Kassim in Comoros said the wreckage was thought to lie about 300-350 metres below the sea's surface.

France and the Comoros have enjoyed close ties since the islands' independence in 1975. France estimates 200,000 people from Comoros live in mainland France, and remittances from France are an important part of the islands' economy.

(Additional reporting by Richard Lough in Antananarivo; Laure Bretton and Estelle Shirbon in Paris; Writing by Andrew Cawthorne; Editing by Matthew Jones)

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