Kwaheri.

June 29, 2009 9:46 PM

Kwaheri les amis on the way to the Islands of the Moon.
posted by pwedza (8 comments total)

what
posted by empath at 11:35 PM on June 29, 2009

Sad news.

At the moment it seems there were 142 passengers and 11 crew. The approximate place the crash occurred was the northernmost tip of the Comoros islands, Mitsamiouli.

The last crash that occurred in that part of the world was due to a hijacking.

Apparently some bodies have already been recovered.
posted by nickyskye at 11:42 PM on June 29, 2009

Goodbye friends?
posted by tellurian at 11:44 PM on June 29, 2009

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I'm guessing the post is in Swahili (Kwaheri = goodbye) because Comorian is a dialect of kiswahili.
posted by Solon and Thanks at 12:01 AM on June 30, 2009

From an article in 2006: David Learmount, a safety specialist, points out in the latest edition of Flight magazine that many of the fatal accidents last year involved aircraft registered in states with "struggling economies" where regulatory activity was low on the list of political priorities.
posted by twoleftfeet at 12:13 AM on June 30, 2009

Something's missing
posted by mattoxic at 5:01 AM on June 30, 2009

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Matokeo ya Utafutaji kwa
pwedza: - I hope none of your family or friends were on board.
mattoxic: - nothing to do with Air France. This was a Yemeni airliner There are reports of a child being found alive.
posted by adamvasco at 5:11 AM on June 30, 2009

I cannot imagine the terror that Baya Bakari felt as she clung to wreckage and watched the plane sink into the ocean. And the people running that airline using a banned plane - criminals.
posted by tellurian at 7:33 PM on July 1, 2009