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Comoros air disaster: black box recovered

Moroni, Comoros - By an international research team

An international research team today recovered the flight data recorder from the Yemenia Airbus A-310/300 that crashed on June 30 in the Indian Ocean, off the coast of Moroni, Comoros Islands, accident in which 152 out of the 153 people on board were killed (see AVIONEWS). The black box, slightly damaged, might supply crucial information within the inquiry on the cause of this air disaster, the...

AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency - 1108661
Rome, Italy, 08/28/2009 15:59
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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