153 have survived.
The Aviation Safety Agency and Navigation in Africa and Madagascar - the body responsible for aviation safety in Africa, the Francophone (French-speaking) occur earlier in the third that the search and rescue aircraft found the wreckage of the Airbus aircraft in distress.
The news agency Reuters Qasim Ibrahim, one of the officials as saying the airport in Moroni, capital of the Comoros: "I saw the aircraft wreckage at the site of the alleged incident, and we do not know yet the fate of the passengers."
The Yemeni government official said on Tuesday that a passenger plane operated by the airline crashed in Yemen government in the Comoros archipelago in the Indian Ocean, carrying 153 people.
Earlier reports said that there was a flight from Sanaa was scheduled at around 02:30 local time (11:30 GMT).
The Yemeni official said that the majority of passengers on board the Airbus 310 aircraft are returning residents of the moon from Paris.
An official with the Civil Aviation Authority in the Comoros told the BBC that the plane was often After a few kilometers from the airport when it crashed.
He added that weather conditions were not good for several days.
The official pointed out that some of the passengers were French nationals, and Mayotte.
The police source said that the Comoros is believed that the plane crashed into the sea. "In fact, we do not have the capacity for rescue at sea."
He said a resident living near the airport told the BBC that about 100 people trying to enter the airport to find out more details, but did not succeed in their quest.
The Comoros is an archipelago located in the three smaller Mozambique Channel, about 300 km north-west of Madagascar, at a distance similar to the east of the African continent.
Search
The news agency Reuters as saying Moroni airport director said the search for the missing plane had begun, with the participation of French military aircraft and boat of the French navy.
The unconfirmed reports said the plane was attempting to land at the airport in Moroni, but it has not been able to do so. Found no sign of them after that.
Ethiopian plane was hijacked, crashed in the same region in 1996, have been killed in that incident, most of the 175 passengers.
The Airbus 330 plane belonging to Air France flight that crashed in the Atlantic Ocean while en route from Rio de Janeiro in Brazil to Paris earlier this month.
The incident - which did not yet know the causes - the deaths of 228 passengers.