February 6, 2010 8:08 PM

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Fuselage of crashed Ethiopian airlines plane found

Searchers have located a large part of the fuselage of an Ethiopian Airlines plane that crashed in the sea off Lebanon last month killing 90 people. Lebanese Transport Minister Ghazi Aridi said the vessel 'Ocean Alert' has found part of the rear section of the aircraft's cabin between 10 and 12 metres long at a depth of 45 metres off Naameh, 12 kilometres south of Beirut. He said specialist teams are getting ready to dive on the site to look for the black boxes or flight recorders that could reveal the cause of January 25 crash. The Boeing 737-800 went down before dawn just minutes after take-off during stormy weather from Beirut airport, bound for Addis Ababa with 83 passengers and seven crew on board. No survivors were found, and only 15 bodies have so far been recovered.

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