Black box from crashed Kenyan airliner found

DOUALA (CAMEROON): One of the two black boxes from the Kenya Airways plane that went down at the weekend in Cameroon has been found at the crash site, a Cameroonian civil aviation official said.

"We found the flight data recorder. We still need to recover the cockpit flight recorder," said civil aviation director general Ignatius Sana Juma on Monday.

He added that the black box was found in the mud in the debris of the aircraft whose impact had created a large crater in a mangrove swamp near Mbanga-Pongo, southeast of the Douala airport from where the Boeing 737-800 took off early on Saturday on a flight heading to Nairobi.

All 114 people on board died in the crash.

The black box will be examined by aviation experts as part of the investigation into what caused the crash, he added.

Search operations at the crash site were set to resume early on Tuesday.