A 32-year-old mother of three from Ottawa is believed to be one of 153 people on board a passenger jet that crashed into the Indian Ocean early Tuesday.
Ensumata Abdoulghani had a ticket for doomed Yemenia flight 626, the woman's family told CTV Ottawa.
The family says they been unable to confirm if Abdoulghani boarded the plane, but they say she has not contacted them. They are frustrated with the lack of information they've received from the airline.
"Until now we don't even know if they found the body or not? Did she die or no? We have no information about that," her brother-in-law Mohamed Mahamoud said.
The Airbus A310, which took off from the Yemeni capital of San'a, crashed as it tried to land amid heavy wind in Moroni, on the island nation of Comoros.
Only one survivor has been found so far, a 14-year-old girl who was plucked from the waters of the Indian Ocean. There were earlier reports that the rescued child was five but those were incorrect, a Comoros government spokesperson has told reporters.
Hakim Almasmari, editor of the Yemen Post, told CTV News Channel on Tuesday that the body of one Canadian has been recovered.
Foreign Affairs was contacted by CTV.ca but did not have any information to immediately offer about the crash.
Abdoulghani had been destined for Comoros to visit her sick mother. She had just finished visiting her husband's sister in Paris.
Abdoulghani's husband, Youssouf Mahamoud, is scheduled to travel to Comoros Tuesday night from Ottawa.
The crash occurred two years after aviation officials reported problems with the plane. French Transport Minister Dominique Bussereau told reporters Tuesday that inspections of the plane revealed multiple faults and it had been banned from European airspace.
Yemen officials said the plane has passed an inspection in their country, under the supervision of the manufacturer, in May, The Telegraph reports.
The Yemenia airline, Yemen's national airline, had not suffered a fatal accident under its current form since it was created in 1978. The airline says the faults discovered by European inspections in the plane had been corrected.
According to The Associated Press, 66 of the people on board the plane were French nationals.
Yemeni officials have so far not given an official death toll or confirmed the identities of the bodies recovered.
Yemeni civil aviation deputy chief Mohammed Abdul Qader said Tuesday that the flight data recorder had not yet been found.
Qader said winds were more than 60 km/h when the crash happened.
Gen. Bruno de Bourdoncle de Saint-Salvy, the senior commander for French forces in the southern Indian Ocean, said the plane crashed about 34 kilometres from the Moroni airport.
Almasmari said the rest of the bodies are expected to be recovered on Tuesday.
In a statement Tuesday, French President Nicolas Sarkozy "expressed his deep emotion" about the accident and said the French military would help with the search.
The Comoros, located about 2,900 kilometres south of Yemen, is an archipelago of three main islands.
Last month, an Air France plane, an Airbus A330, crashed after leaving Brazil, killing 228 people on board.
With files from The Associated Press
