Relatives of passengers aboard the Yemenia flight that plunged into the Indian Ocean waited for information on Tuesday (June 30) at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
The Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into choppy seas as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said.
"I heard from family members who called me this morning. I tried to get information on the internet ... Read more

Relatives of passengers aboard the Yemenia flight that plunged into the Indian Ocean waited for information on Tuesday (June 30) at the Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris.
The Airbus A310-300 from Yemen with 153 people on board, including 66 French nationals, crashed into choppy seas as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros on Tuesday, officials said.
"I heard from family members who called me this morning. I tried to get information on the internet or on the radio, there isn't much. So I came to see what's going on", one familiy member told Reuters TV.
He added that he was still waiting for more information about what happened.
"Not much. For now, the information I've gotten is from the media, who don't have much either. So I came here to see if they have more information about the passengers that survived the crash, or the passengers who died, to have more information, basically", he said.
Paris Airport said there were 66 French nationals aboard.
Two French military planes and a French ship left the Indian Ocean islands of Mayotte and Reunion to search for the Yemenia aircraft that was carrying nationals from France and Comoros. Close