Comoran women cry on June 30, 2009, in La Courneuve, outside Paris, following the crash of a Yemeni passenger jet with 153 people on board that went down near the Indian Ocean archipelago of the Comoros. Mehdi Fedouach/AFP/Getty Images Protesters linked arms across an entrance at Paris' main airport on Friday to keep passengers off a Yemeni flight to Comoros on a route that saw a deadly crash this week after years of complaints about dangerous conditions en route to the Indian Ocean island nation. Many in the Comoran community in France are angry that it took Tuesday's accident, which killed 152 people on Yemenia airlines' Paris-Moroni flight, to focus attention on the problems. They say that since 2004 they have been complaining about dangerous planes, unhelpful crews and stopovers in the Yemeni capital of San'a that last... [read full story]
