Official: Comoros black boxes too deep for divers

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. A 12-year-old girl was the sole survivor.

A French submarine picked up signals from the plane's two black boxes on Sunday but no one has yet located the boxes, which contain the plane's flight data and cockpit voice recorders.

The French official, speaking from a crisis unit set up at the French embassy in Comoros after the crash, said two teams of investigators from the French navy and …