Official says 3 more bodies found in Tanzania, French navy arrives to help crash search

July 23rd, 2009 French navy homes in on Comoros crash black boxesPARIS — A French navy vessel has pinpointed the location of the black boxes of a Yemenia Airways plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands, the ship's captain said Thursday. Comoran and French authorities are still investigating the cause of the June 30 crash that left a 12-year-old girl as the only known survivor out of 153 people aboard.

July 23rd, 2009 French navy detects Comoros crash black boxesPARIS — A French navy vessel has detected the black boxes of a Yemenia Airways plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean near the Comoros Islands, the ship's captain said Thursday. Comoran and French authorities, meanwhile, were still investigating the cause of the June 30 crash that left a 12-year-old girl as the only known survivor out of 153 people aboard.

July 13th, 2009 Relatives of plane crash victims travel to ComorosPARIS — Relatives of those killed when a Yemenia Airways plane crashed two weeks ago traveled Monday to the Comoros Islands in hopes of finding peace after their losses, officials said. Authorities, meanwhile, were still investigating the cause of the June 30 crash, from which a 12-year-old girl was the only survivor out of 153 aboard.

July 9th, 2009 2 more possible plane bodies found in TanzaniaARUSHA, Tanzania — Two more bodies were recovered in Tanzania as the French navy arrived Thursday to assist with the search for wreckage and remains from a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean with 153 people aboard. Only one person, a 12-year-old girl, survived the June 30 crash of Yemenia Airways Flight 626 off the coast of Comoros.

July 9th, 2009 ARUSHA, Tanzania — An official from a Tanzanian island says the French navy has arrived to assist with the search for remains of a plane that crashed into the Indian Ocean with 153 people aboard. Only one person survived last week's crash off the coast of Comoros and currents are believed to have carried debris from the plane and bodies over 500 miles (800 kilometers) to the shores of Tanzania.

July 8th, 2009 Search for missing plane debris widens to TanzaniaARUSHA, Tanzania — An airline seat and a sheet of metal with an "Airbus" inscription washed ashore in Tanzania, officials said Wednesday, as two French investigators arrived to see if the debris was linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away. The search for the remains of Flight 626 has widened since the plane crashed June 30 while trying to land in the Comoros with 153 passengers aboard.

July 8th, 2009 Tanzania: 13 bodies, Airbus plane debris foundARUSHA, Tanzania — Tanzanian officials say 13 bodies and a plane seat have washed ashore on their beaches and investigators are trying to figure out if those are linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away. Mafia Island District Commissioner Manzie Mangochie says the bodies were both African and European and included three women.

July 8th, 2009 13 bodies found in Tanzania; Plane crash ties eyedARUSHA, Tanzania — Thirteen bodies, a plane seat and a piece of metal stamped "Airbus" washed ashore in Tanzania and French investigators were trying to determine Wednesday if they were linked to the Yemenia Airways plane crash hundreds of miles away. Manzie Mangochie, district commissioner for Tanzania's largely undeveloped Mafia Island, said the bodies appeared to be of both African and European descent and included three women.

July 7th, 2009 Yemen: 8 bodies in Tanzania may be from air crashNAIROBI, Kenya — Eight bodies that have washed ashore in Tanzania may be from a plane that plunged into the Indian Ocean with 153 people onboard, Yemeni authorities said Tuesday. Only one 12-year-old girl survived the crash.

July 7th, 2009 Official: Comoros black boxes too deep for diversNAIROBI, Kenya — Investigators have concluded that the black boxes from a plane that plunged into the Indian Ocean with 153 people onboard are too deep to be reached by divers, a French official said Tuesday. Yemenia Airways Flight 626 crashed into the Indian Ocean north of the Comoros Islands a week ago.

July 7th, 2009 Divers, investigators in Comoros search for planeNAIROBI, Kenya — A Comoran official says little debris and no bodies from the crashed Yemenia Airways plane have been found, but predicts that will change once the exact location of the plane's black boxes are pinpointed. One 12-year-old girl survived by clinging to floating debris for up to 13 hours after the June 30 plane crash, but 152 other passengers and crew are still missing from Flight 626.

June 17th, 2009 RIO DE JANEIRO - Seven more bodies were recovered Tuesday from the sea from the Air France plane crash earlier this month, bringing the total of bodies recovered up to 50, a Navy spokesman said. Six bodies were recovered by a French ship off Brazil's northeastern coast and one by the Brazilian Navy.

June 7th, 2009 PARIS - The French Navy has found another body from the Air France airliner that plunged into the Atlantic with 228 people aboard, a spokesman said here Sunday. The body was spotted by a helicopter and recovered from waters about 1,200 km northeast of the Brazilian coastline by the frigate Ventose.

June 7th, 2009 US Navy sending locators to French for plane crashWASHINGTON — The U.S. Navy is sending two high-tech devices to French ships that will help them locate the black box flight recorders for the Air France plane that crashed nearly a week ago in the Atlantic Ocean.

June 6th, 2009 BRASILIA - The Brazilian Navy said Saturday that it recovered two male bodies from the Air France plane that crashed in the middle of the Atlantic Ocean last Sunday. "This morning at 8:14 a.m.