Dynamite fishing, coral mining, and farm runoff take a toll

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In addition to bleaching disease, the fringing reefs around the Comoro Islands have been hammered by human impacts: coral and coral-sand mining, sediment from agricultural runoff, and, on one occasion, a huge jetliner falling out of the sky. In November 1996, a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 767 crashed into a near-shore Comoros coral reef just yards from scuba-diving tourists, killing 123 of the 175 people on board. The hijackers, one of whom appeared to be drunk, apparently did not believe the pilot when he said the plane was running out of fuel.