Angry Comoran youths have protested at Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport against what they call unsafe flights from France to Comoros.

They stopped passengers getting on a plane to Sanaa in Yemen. Their demonstration was in response to Tuesday's Yemenia Airways disaster in which a plane from Sanaa crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros.

The airline used two aircraft to fly passengers from France to Comoros. A reasonably new plane was used to fly from Paris to Sanaa, where passengers transferred onto a 19-year-old Airbus. The second plane was banned from flying in France for safety reasons and crashed just before it was due to land in Comoros.

The protesters described the Airbus as a flying coffin, saying it is a scandal that French citizens were made to use it. They are demanding that all Yemenia Airways planes meet European safety standards. There is a large Comoran community in France, with most of them, about 80,000, living in Marseilles.

The only survivor of the crash to be so far found alive in the sea is a 14-year-old girl. All the other 152 people on board are thought to have been killed.

One of the black boxes from the doomed flight has been located by a French patrol. An attempt will be made later in the day to recover it from the sea.