Signal from sunken plane picked up

SANTO DOMINGO - Search teams have detected a signal from the flight data recorder on a Boeing 757 airliner that crashed in the…

SANTO DOMINGO - Search teams have detected a signal from the flight data recorder on a Boeing 757 airliner that crashed in the Atlantic last week, killing all 189 people on board, officials said yesterday.

The electronic signal was detected but the recorder itself has not yet been pulled out of the ocean, the US Information Service said.

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