Yemenia Flight 626

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Yemenia Flight 626 was a scheduled flight on an Airbus A310 twin-engine jet airliner operated by Yemenia that was flying a scheduled international service, from Sanaa in Yemen to Moroni in Comoros, when it crashed on 30 June 2009 at around 1:50 am local time (10:50 pm on 29 June UTC) while on approach to Prince Said Ibrahim International Airport, killing all but one of the 153 passengers and crew on board. The sole survivor, 12-year-old girl Bahia Bakari, was found clinging to wreckage after floating in the ocean. Bakari was discharged from the hospital on 23 July 2009. With 152 deaths, it was the deadliest aviation disaster in the Comoros and one of the deadliest modern disasters in the nation. The final report on the incident concluded that the crew's inappropriate flight control inputs led to an aerodynamic stall. Failing to stabilize the approach, the crew decided to abandon it and made a go-around. While conducting the climb, they were unaware that their inputs caused the automation...

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