Yemen expects one week to read data recorders of Yemenia crashed

SANA'A, Aug.31
(Saba) - Head of Yemeni team in the joint committee for investigating the Yemenia
Airbus 310
crash off Comoros Islands in last June revealed that reading the plane's two data
recoders would take a week to reveal the cause of the crash.
The Yemeni official added that the Yemeni, French and Comorian team would read the
two data recorders along with the specialists in an Office of Aviation
Investigation Department.
He pointed out the two boxes contained a lot of technical and phonic information
about the airliner to be compared with the available information with the committee
to know
to the real cause of the crash.
The two boxes were recovered along with 19 more bodies of the crash victims which
increased the number of retrieved bodies to about 45 bodies since the start of
research
operations as well as retrieving parts of the plane's debris, the official indicated.
He affirmed the two boxes were found in the Indian Ocean at a depth of about 1,200
meters, so retrieving them was delayed waiting for a French ship provided with an
underwater
robot that could scan the ocean bottom.
Research process is ongoing for missing bodies.
Yemenia Airbus A310 crashed on 30 June in the Indian Ocean off Comoros Islands with
153 passengers and crew onboard. A sole French teen, age 14, survived the tragedy.
Reasons behind the accident are still unclear.
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