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Child survives plane crash in Indian ocean.

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A massive rescue effort was under way Tuesday after a young child was found among the wreckage of a downed Yemeni jet off the coast of Comoros in the Indian Ocean. "One child is alive and we hope to find more," Yemenia Airways chairman Capt. Abdulkhalek al-Kadi told CNN. The child has been taken to a hospital. The French Navy is sending ships and a plan to help Yemeni authorities try to find any more survivors, he said. The Yemenia Airways flight went down early Tuesday, carrying 153 people en route to the island nation of Comoros (moon) from Yemen's capital, Sanaa. A reconnaissance plane spotted traces of the Airbus A310-300 in waters off the town of Mitsamiouli early Tuesday, said Comoros Vice President Idi Nadhoim. Comoros is located off the coast of east Africa, between Tanzania and Madagascar. Al-Kadi blamed the crash on bad weather, noting that there were "high seas and windy weather" at the time. It is the second crash involving an Airbus jet in a