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Jun 30, 2009

Yemen details passenger nationalities on crashed flight

SANAA: Fifty-four Comorans, 26 French nationals, one Palestinian and one Canadian were among the passengers on board the Yemenia plane that crashed near the Comoros on Tuesday, Yemen's defence ministry said.

The crew on the flight was made up of two Moroccan women, two female Ethiopians, one Indonesian woman and six Yemenis, an unidentified official told www.26sep.net, which is linked to the defence ministry

A representative of the Yemeni investigations committee had said earlier that the crew included one Filipina.

A total of 153 people were on board the Airbus when it went down near the Indian Ocean archipelago on Tuesday, officials said.

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