The international company of Yemen will have to pay the maximum fine after the crash of one of its planes, which claimed the lives of 152 people in 2009.
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The company Yemenia Airways was sentenced, Wednesday, September 14, to a fine of 225,000 euros (the maximum amount) after the crash in July 2009 of an Airbus A310 off the Comoros. Regarding this accident which claimed the lives of 152 people, the Paris Criminal Court found the Yemeni company guilty of manslaughter and manslaughter. Yemenia Airways will also have to pay two associations more than one million euros in legal fees and damages.
Only one little girl had survived this air disaster: Bahia Bakari, 12 years old at the time. The teenager was flying for the first time with her mother to attend a family wedding in the Comoros, before the plane crashed off the archipelago.
Ten hours after the crash, it was a fisherman who had saved the only survivor. The investigation has since pointed to a lack of pilot training as well as poor airport signage.