Feb 03, 2010 | Gulf Times

Lebanese Public Works and Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi said yesterday that Syrian officials have informed him that a part of an Ethiopian airliner which crashed off the Lebanese coast last week has been found in Syrian waters.

The recovered wreckage will be transported to the Lebanese authorities, Aridi added. On January 25, an Ethiopian airliner carrying 90 passengers, among them 54 Lebanese, crashed off the coast of Lebanon four minutes after take-off from Beirut International Airport.

Usually the flight data and cockpit voice recorders send electronic signal to facilitate the recovery of the plane. According to a Lebanese army source, signals were detected about 14KM off the coast, south of the airport at a depth of 1,300m.

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