French junior transport minister again
Funny, having read his quote earlier, to see this:
Paris - Airbus officials in France reported on Tuesday that the Airbus A310 that crashed near the Comoros Islands on Tuesday was 19 years old and had been in service with Yemenia since 1999. It had logged almost 52,000 flight hours and about 17,300 flights. French Junior Minister for Transport Dominique Bussereau told i- tele TV news that French civil aviation authorities had kept Yemenia Airways under close surveillance and had detected "very many defects" on the aircraft. The plane "disappeared from French skies" after these defects were found," Bussereau said."
Politics, anyone? Or poor translation/editing?