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Callas
Yemenia was on an EU watchlist because of safety concerns and had not flown A310s into France after a mid-2007 inspection of the plane that crashed, French Transportation Minister
Dominique Bussereau said. “This plane had been excluded from the national territory because it represented certain irregularities,” he told members of parliament.......... “This airline was under strict surveillance,” Bussereau said on France’s i-tele television channel. “It’s a plane that disappeared from French soil following the discovery of numerous faults.”
.......EU rules require that any ban of planes be implemented across Europe, not just in an individual country. Bussereau didn’t spell out today whether the plane was banned only in France .
Well the accident aircraft in question, 7O-ADJ, has certainly been around Europe. It last came through London Heathrow on the Yemen Airways schedule IY743 on 24 June, one week before the accident. Did it overfly French airspace en route to/from Yemen ?