Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes

A submarine scouring the Indian Ocean on Sunday detected the signal beacons of the two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands, the French aviation agency said. Plans were under way to retrieve the boxes within days, an official from Yemen said. A 12-year-old girl, Bahia Bakari, who clung to debris for up to 13 hours, is the only known survivor of Tuesday's crash, which killed 152 people flying from Paris to Moroni, the capital of the Comoros, via San'a in Yemen. The chief of Yemen's Civil Aviation Authority, Hamed Ahmad Faraj, had only grim news Sunday for reporters, saying that search planes have spotted another floating body. The Airbus A310's flight data and cockpit recorders inside the black boxes are critical to help investigators understand why the flight went down, but the... [read full story]                    

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