Rescuers have found a lone survivor from a Yemenia Air plane that crashed in the Indian Ocean near the Comoros islands with more than 150 people on board. Initial reports mentioned a five-year old boy, but later ones identified the survivor as a 14-year-old girl.
救援人员在科摩罗群岛附近印度洋上找到一名也门航空公司坠毁的一架客机上的幸存者，当时飞 社有150名乘客。最初的报道提到幸存者是一名5岁的男孩,但后续鍵确认幸存者是一名14岁的女孩。
Yemeni Civil Aviation spokesman Mohammed Kader told journalists that “bodies were seen floating on the surface of the water and that a fuel slick had also been seen about 16 or 17 kilometers from Moroni.”
也门民航发言人穆罕默德?卡德尔对记者说海面上漂浮着遇难者的遗体，距离莫罗尼十六七 公里处有一条飞机燃油泄漏带。”
The Airbus 310 plane was carrying 142 passengers, including at least three babies, and a crew of 11 Yemenis. The Paris airports authority said 66 French nationals and a large number of Comoros nationals were aboard the aircraft, which was on the final leg of a flight from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen.
坠毁的空客310客机上载有142名乘客，其中包括至少3个婴 儿，以及11名也门籍机组乘员。巴黎机场官员称机上乘客有66人是 法国人，其他大部分是科摩罗群岛人。飞机是在从巴黎-马赛经也 门飞往科摩罗的最后一段航程中坠毁的。
Many of the passengers began their journey in Paris or Marseille aboard a different Yemenia plane，an A330. They switched to the A310 in Sana’a，the Yemeni capital.
大多数乘客是在巴黎或马赛登上另一架属于也门航空公司 的空客A330客机的。他们是在也门首都萨那转乘坠毁的A310客 机的。
Stephane Salord, the consul general of the Comoros in the Provence-Alps-Cote d’Azur region of France, said: “There is considerable dismay. These are families that, each year on the eve of summer, leave Marseille and the region to rejoin their families in the Comoros and spend their holidays.”
科摩罗驻法国普罗旺斯-阿尔卑斯-蓝色海岸大区总领事史蒂 芬妮?萨洛荷称广对于这件事我们感到非常抱歉。这些家庭每年初 夏之际都会离开马赛地区，前往科摩罗与他们的家人相聚并在那里 度假。”
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, expressed his “deep emotion” at the crash as the French foreign minister, Bernard Kouchner, said French planes and ships were going to help in search operations at the Comoros government’s request.
法国总统尼古拉?萨科奇表达了他对坠机事件的“深切哀 悼”，同时,法国外长伯纳德?库什内尔称，根据科摩罗政府的要 求，法国将派出飞机与船只协助进行搜救行动。
Ibrahim Kassim, a representative of the regional air security body, said the plane was believed to have come down between three and six miles from the coast. “We think the crash is somewhere along its landing approach,” he said. “The weather is really not very favorable. The sea is very rough?”
区域航空安全机构代表亚伯拉罕?卡西姆称，飞机应该是在 距离海岸3到6英里(4. 8到9.6公里）处坠海。他说广我们认为坠 机是在其尝试着陆时发生的。天气情况的确很不利。海面上波涛 汹涌。”
The French transport minister，Dominique Bussereau, said French aviation inspectors had found a number of faults during a 2007 inspection of the plane that crashed. Speaking on the French i-Tele television channel, Bussereau said the Airbus was inspected by France’s civil aviation agency in 2007 and “a certain number of faults” were noticed. He said the plane which had not returned to French airspace since was not on any European blacklists but was also “subject to stricter surveillance on our part” and was scheduled for a review by EU safety officials.
法国交通部部长多米尼克?皮斯罗称，法国航空检查人员2007 年对这次坠毁的飞机进行检测时发现了一些故障。皮斯罗在法国 i-Tele电视频道上发表的讲话中称，2007年，这架空中客车飞机接 受了法国民航机构的检查，而且发现了“很多的故障”。他说，这架飞机从那之后就没再回到法国领空，它并不在欧盟的黑名单上,但也“受到了我们的严密监视”并 且已经预定将会接受欧盟安全官员的一次重新检测。
An Airbus statement said the plane went into service in 1990 and had accumulated 51,900 flight hours. It had been operated by Yemenia Air since 1999.
空中客车公司的声明中说,该飞机是在1990年投人使用的，飞行时间已达51900小时。1999年 以后，该飞机由也门航空公司进行操作。
The A310-300 is a twin-engine wide-body jet that can seat up to 220 passengers. There are 214 A310s in service worldwide, used by 41 operators.
A310-100型客机是一种双发动机宽体式客机，机上最多可载220名乘客。全世界该型号飞机 共有214架，分属41家不同的航空公司。
Comoros covers three small volcanic islands—Grande Comore, Anjouan and Moheli—in the Mozambique channel, about 1,800 miles south of Yemen between Africa’s south-eastern coast and Madagascar.
科摩罗位于非洲大陆东南海岸与马达加斯加岛之间的莫桑比克海峡，位置在也门南方约1800 英里(2880公里）。其领土包括3个小型火山岛：大科摩罗、昂儒昂和莫埃利。
The Yemenia plane is the second Airbus to crash into the sea in a month. An Air France Airbus A330-200 flying to France from Brazil went down in the Atlantic Ocean, killing all 228 people on board, on 31 May. In 1996，a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 also crashed into the sea off the Comoros islands, killing 125 of the 175 passengers and crew.
也门航空公司的飞机是一个月之内第二架坠人大海的空客飞机。5月31日，法航从巴西飞往法国 的A330-200客机坠人大西洋，机上228人全部遇难。1996年,一架被劫持的埃塞俄比亚航空公司的波 音767客机同样在科摩罗群岛附近坠海,机上175名乘客和机组人员有125人遇难。
Yemenia is 51% owned by the Yemeni government and 49% by the Saudi Arabian government. Its fleet includes two Airbus 330-200s，four Airbus 310-300s and four Boeing 737-800s.
也门航空公司51%的股权为也门政府持有，另外49%股权属于沙特阿拉伯政府。其属下飞机包 括两架空客A330—200,4架空客A310-300和4架波音737—800。