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PARIS — France says a ship carrying an underwater robot has arrived at the Indian Ocean nation of Comoros to retrieve the flight recorders from the Yemenia Airways plane crash.
One girl survived the June 30 ocean crash and the other 152 people aboard the Comoros-bound flight were killed. Many were French citizens of Comoran origin.
France's Foreign Ministry said in a statement that the ship arrived in the area Thursday.
The boat will be used to look for the plane's black boxes, or flight voice and data recorders. A French navy vessel pinpointed their location last month about at 1,200 meters (3,900 feet) deep, but did not have the deep-sea equipment to try to fetch them.
Investigators from France, Yemen and Comoros will participate in the operation.
