UN finds Air Algerie jet's 2nd black box

London

THE United Nations said that it recovered the second black box from the Air Algerie MD-83 that crashed in Mali last week as troops from France, Mali and Burkina Faso continued recovery efforts.

More than 200 soldiers have been deployed to a thinly populated semi-arid area near the Burkina Faso border where Flight AH5017 crashed at about 2am on July 24. The plane, carrying 110 passengers and six crew, was identified by the French military on Friday, which has secured the site and found one of the black boxes. The UN Mission in Mali found the second device, it said in an e-mailed statement over the weekend.