French: Sub hears signal from Yemenia black boxes

2009-07-05 12:54:02 -

PARIS (AP) - The French agency investigating last week's crash of a Yemenia Airways flight to the Comoros says a submarine taking part in the search has picked up signals from the aircraft's two black boxes.
The accident investigating agency BEA said the signals were picked up Sunday morning during a submarine search for the black boxes, which are critical to understanding the cause of Tuesday's crash off the Comoros coast.
A 12-year-old girl is the only survivor of the crash that killed 152 people on the flight from Paris to Moroni, the capital of the Comoros.
BEA's one-line statement gave no indication of when the flight data record and the cockpit voice recorder in the black boxes might be recovered.