Black Box located
YEMEN, July 1 2009 - One of the black box flight recorders from the Yemeni plane which crashed in the Indian Ocean on Tuesday has been located, a French official has said.
Efforts to retrieve the recorder will begin during the day, the official added, quoted by AFP news agency. The plane came down in bad weather with 153 people on board. Only one survivor was found but rescue efforts continue. There were 66 French nationals on board the plane, which was flying from the Yemeni capital Sanaa to the Comoros. Most of the plane's passengers had flown on a different Yemenia aircraft from Paris or Marseille before boarding flight IY626 in Sanaa. "The black box's signal was located yesterday at 1630 local time (1230 GMT) by an aerial patrol, 40 km from Grande Comore," a spokeswoman for Co-operation Minister Alain Joyandet said. A French vessel has been sent to the site to start recovery operations,