Looters take flight recorder

Phnom Penh - Looters have made off with a vital black box flight recorder from the wreckage of a Vietnamese plane which crashed…

Phnom Penh - Looters have made off with a vital black box flight recorder from the wreckage of a Vietnamese plane which crashed in Cambodia killing at least 64 people, an aviation official said yesterday.

Preliminary findings have indicated that the pilot was off course when the Vietnam Airlines Tupolev Tu-134 made its approach at Phnom Penh airport on Wednesday but too low to correct his flight path, he said.

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