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Updated Saturday, August 29, 2009 12:29 am TWN, AP

Yemenia flight data recorder found: Comoros

MORONI, Comoros -- Investigators on Friday retrieved the slightly damaged flight data recorder and 10 more bodies from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean, officials said.

The black box was found underwater off the coast of the island nation's capital, Moroni, according to a statement from the Comoros-based aviation investigation team. No details were provided about the other box containing the voice recorder.

Yemenia Flight 626 crashed June 30 en route from Paris to Moroni via Yemen, killing 152 people. One teenage girl survived and is back home outside Paris.

Interior Minister Bourhane Hamidou said the black box that was found Friday is slightly damaged.

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