A Filipina flight attendant was confirmed to be on board the Yemeni passenger jet that plunged into the Indian Ocean on Tuesday, officials said Thursday. The Philippine embassy in Saudi Arabia, which has jurisdiction over Philippine nationals in Yemen, identified the stewardess on Thursday as Camille Lou Castillo Libron, 26 years old. The embassy obtained the information from Yemeni national Jana Khalid and his Filipino wife Jana Garcia, who were co-workers of Libron. Reports from Manila said Libron was not supposed to be on the Yemenia Airways Flight 626 when it crashed last Monday. Libron, who was merely asked to pinch-hit for a Malaysian flight attendant who was on leave, was the youngest and the only girl of three siblings. Her father and one of her two older brothers are both Overseas Filipino Workers (OFWs), her famil said. She grew up and lived in barangay Poblacion, Calatrava town, Negros Occidental but she earned a fine arts degree from the University of Cebu, in Cebu City. The family said said Libron was employed at the Yemeni airline for about a year. The DFA in Manila said it had received word from the family of Libron that she was on board the plane. The in-flight manager of Yemenia Airways relayed the news her dea th to Libron's family, the DFA said in a statement.
