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Afriqiyah Black boxes in France

On Thursday, the cockpit voice and data recorders of the Afriqiyah Airways Airbus A330-200 which crashed in Tripoli were brought by Naji Dhaw the Libyan investigator to France to be examined to ferret out the details of why the flight crashed. Only the NTSB (US) and the BEA(France) are equipped to read the boxes.

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