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Editor: James T. Crouse
Profession: Aviation Accident Attorney

Category: Plane Crashes

The second of two black boxes from the June Yemenia Airways Airbus A310-300 which crashed in the Indian Ocean has been found one day after the first black box was found. Both the voice recorder and the data recorder will be sent to experts in Paris to recover the contents with further analysis taking place in Moroni.

Investigators hope the recorders will help them determine the cause of the plane crash which at this time remains unknown.

A teenage girl was the only survivor of the plane crash and her mother perished. Chief investigator, Mohamed Ali Abdu told Reuters that "bodies remain in the wreckage and recovery operations continue." Deep-water recovery specialists aboard the U.S. crewed EDT ARES ship recovered the black boxes and six bodies. There were 153 aboard Yemenia Flight 626 from France to Comoros.