Yemenia jetliner's black box signal detected

Celine Le Prioux July 6, 2009 - 5:50AM Search teams scouring the Indian Ocean coast off the Comoros have detected a signal from the black boxes of the Yemenia airliner that crashed last week with 153 people on board, investigators said. French, Comoran, Yemeni and US teams stepped up efforts to locate the flight recorders that contain vital data needed to determine the cause of the crash. "Investigators from the BEA (French accident investigation agency) have detected a signal from the flight recorders," said Comoran lead investigator Ali Abdou Mohamed in a statement received in Paris on Sunday. "The BEA confirms that a signal from the two boxes was detected this morning during underwater searches to locate the flight recorders of Flight IY 626," said a statement from the French BEA. Comoran investigators said the search for... [read full story]                    

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