France has charged Yemenia Airways with manslaughter over a 2009 crash off the Comoros Islands that killed 152 people, judicial sources say, reports the BBC.
The French authorities say the Airbus A310, which set off from the Yemeni capital, should not have been allowed to fly, the AFP news agency reports.
Most of the 152 people killed in the crash were French citizens visiting relatives in the Comoros.
There was just one survivor - a teenage girl who was rescued from the sea.
Many of the passengers were travelling to the Comoros, but had begun their journey in Paris or Marseille on another jet operated by the national airline of Yemen, before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa.
An association of the victims' families, AFVCA, has welcomed the charge.
"It's a great relief for the families of the victims who have waited four and a half years," a spokesman for the association told the BBC.
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