A French court has ordered Yemenia airline to pay more than 30 million euros in damages to the families of victims of a deadly 2009 crash off the Comoros islands. The Yemen air carrier was charged with manslaughter in 2013 over the crash of an Airbus A310 which the French authorities said should never have been allowed to fly.
All but one of the 142 passengers, who included dozens of French nationals and 11 crew members, died in the June 2009 disaster in the Indian Ocean as the plane tried to land in the Comoros capital Moroni.
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