Protesters block Paris airport over Yemen crash

Members of the Comoran community in France block access to a terminal at an airport north of Paris on Friday in protest against what they say are poor conditions on Yemenia Airways flights from France to Yemen. PARIS (AP) — 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 hours or days... [read full story]                    

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