Bodies and debris from a Yemeni flight, which crashed about 8 to 12 km off Comoros early on Tuesday morning, have reportedly been found.

"A research aircraft found some debris of the plane near the supposed area of the sea," a senior official of the Agency for Safety of Air Navigation in Africa and Madagascar Ibrahim Kassim said in Moroni, capital of Comoros.

Relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Airbus flight A310-300 from Yemen arrive at a crisis center at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris, June 30, 2009. [Xinhua]

Reports reaching here said that 153 passengers, including a crew of 11, were on the Airbus A310-300 plane, belonging to Yemani state carrier Yemenia Air, which was on road from Yemen's capital Sanaa to Moroni, the capital of Comoros.

Official reports from Comoros said that 120 of the passengers were Comoros residents returning from France while over 20 of them were French nationals.

However, a French website, www.jdd.fr, reported that 66 French citizens were on board of the flight.

It quoted the French Secretary of State for Transport, Dominique Bussereau as saying that "Yemenia is not on the blacklist, otherwise it would not have authorization from Roissy," an international airport in Paris.

The Comoros Air Services is on the blacklist of airlines, which have been prohibited for flight from and to European territories.