Misc
Black box found in off Lebanon
Monday, February 8th 2010 2:59 PM
Erbil, Feb. 8 (AKnews) - Search teams have retrieved flight recorders belonging to the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed in the Mediterranean last month, killing all 90 people aboard.
Passenger jets carry two recorders, a flight data recorder and a cockpit voice recorder, commonly referred to as "black boxes."
Only hours after Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi announced the retrieval of the passenger jet's flight data recorder, an army official told Reuters that the voice recorder had also been found.
The boxes were taken to Beirut's naval base and handed to the investigators of the crash.
They will then be sent to France's accident investigation agency, to shed light on the cause of the crash.
Aridi meanwhile said on Sunday that navy commandos had also located the fuselage of the plane, where most of the bodies are believed to be trapped.
Eight bodies have been recovered, bringing to 23 the number of victims found so far.
Search is still underway for 67 bodies that remain missing.
The Boeing 737, which was en route to the Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa, caught fire and crashed on January 25, minutes after take-off from Beirut International Airport during a fierce thunderstorm.
All 90 people aboard, most of them Lebanese and Ethiopian nationals, were killed.
ma/gs AKnews
Email this Article from AK NEWS.com Close
More news from Misc
Police officer injured in Kirkuk |
Read more | |
|
Saturday, March 13th 2010 7:26 PM |
||
Kirkuk, March 13 (AKnews) – Director of Arouba Police station in Kirkuk city announced that some unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police officer Saturday after midday that resulted in his...
- Bomb defused wanted nabbed in Duz Khurmatu
- IHEC: 3 countries left for vote counting
- US children send gifts to children of Kurdistan Region
- Clinton rebukes Israel over settlements
- Clinton to land in Moscow next week
- Saudi Arabia denies US claim over Iran
- Car bombs factory found west of Anbar
- Diyala police arrests suicide bomber and four accomplices
- KPU in Egypt mourns Tantawi, Imam of al-Azhar