Shocked relatives and friends of passengers aboard the Airbus flight A310-300 from Yemen gathered at a crisis center at Charles de Gaulle airport near Paris after knowing that the plane with 153 people on board crashed into choppy seas. The crash took place as it tried to land in bad weather on the Indian Ocean archipelago of Comoros. The plane was flying the final leg of a flight taking passengers from Paris and Marseille to Comoros via Yemen. (Reuters photos)