The Department of Foreign Affairs (DFA) has made official representations for family members of a Filipino woman confirmed to have been aboard the Yemeni jetliner that crashed into the Indian Ocean on June 30.
The woman, a 26-year-old flight attendant of the Yemenia Airways based in Sana’a in Yemen, was identified by her employer as Camille Lou Castillo Libron, single, from Negros Occidental province in the Visayas.
The DFA made the announcement after a Libron family member, Lucia, had requested assistance and relayed that the family had been officially contacted by the Yemenia Airways that Camille was aboard the ill-fated flight.
At the same time, DFA corrected earlier information relayed to them by the Philippine Embassy in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, which has diplomatic jurisdiction on Yemen.
Camille was unmarried, according to her co-workers, one of them a Filipina named Jana Garcia Tamah, whose Yemeni husband is named Khalid. The married couple also work with the airline.
It is not clear, however, if Camille came on the flight as a crew member or a plain passenger.
Official announcements from the airline indicated that only one of the 153 persons aboard the Paris-to-Comoros via Yemen flight survived.
Early reports said the Airbus crashed in extremely bad weather as it neared the Comoros airport in the capital of Moroni. PNA
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