[28/August/2009]

SANA'A, Aug. 28 (Saba) – Search for the flight data recorders from the Yemenia airplane which plunged into the Indian Ocean on June 30 has resulted in recovering one of the black boxes, the Supreme Committee on Monitoring Civil Aviation Accidents said on Friday.

The found box is the one containing information on the airplane.

A US ship is currently continuing the search for the other box, which recorded the final conversation of the crew, where the jetliner crashed off Comoros.

The committee has said that all the wreckage of the plane had been recovered and more bodies of the 152 passengers and crew, who were onboard it, were retrieved as well.

Meanwhile, minister of Transport Ibrahim Khalid al-Wazeer said that France had adopted a Yemeni request to extend the search until September 15. The ship carrying out the search started its job last Friday.

The French government ordered to hire a ship carrying a special underwater robot to retrieve the boxes, he added.

The operation is involving French, Yemeni and Comorian experts, al-Wazeer said.

The Yemenia Flight 626 crashed while flying from Paris to Moroni via Yemen. Only one French teenager girl survived the tragedy and she is now back.

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