Black box found as probe into crashed Myanmar military jet continues

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Myanmar's military on Sunday said it has found the black box flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder of the Air Force plane which crashed in the Andaman Sea on June 7, according to a press release from the Office of the Commander-in-chief of the Defense Services.

The two flight data recorders were found in the tail section of the already retrieved plane.

The authorities said they will continue its probe into the cause of the air crash based on the data recovered from the two devices.

The tail section of the crashed plane was found in the sea off the country's southern coast on Thursday./CGTN Photo

92 bodies had been recovered as of Sunday.

The plane, carrying 108 military personnel, their family members and 14 crew, was en route to Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, from the southern coastal town of Myeik on June 7 before contact with the aircraft was lost.

The Y8F200W aircraft, with the registration number 5820, was delivered to the Myanmar Air Force by the China National Aero-Technology Import and Export Corporation in March 2016.

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