Submarine detects signal from Yemenia black boxes

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Yemen's Civil Aviation Authority has said that the two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed off the Comoros Islands...have been located. Plans are underway to retrieve the boxes within days.

A navy search party, comprising US, French, Yemeni and Comoran navy  divers, approaches Galawa beach on the north coast of Grande Comore  island in the Comoros. (AFP/File/Tony Karumba)

The chief of Yemen's Civil Aviation Authority told a press conference on Sunday that a French submarine has detected signals from the two black boxes. He also said the recording of the conversation between the pilot and the Sanaa airport control center shows the captain did not report any mechanical problems.

Yemenia Flight 626 crashed in the Indian Ocean last Tuesday...while preparing to land. 152 people on board died And only a 12-year-old girl survived the crash.