Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes

By ELAINE GANLEY AND TOM MALITI ASSOCIATED PRESS WRITERS About five hundred men and women from the Comoros Islands living in France, march in memory of the victims of Tuesday's Yemenia Airways plane crash near the Comoros Islands, in Paris, Sunday July 5, 2009. (AP Photo/Michel Euler) PARIS -- 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... [read full story]                    

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