Hope of Retrieving CAL Plane's Black Boxes Fading

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Hope of Retrieving CAL Plane's Black Boxes Fading

Hope of retrieving the "black boxes" of the China Airlines Boeing 747-200 CI-611 that crashed off Penghu is fading as the signals from the flight data and voice recorders become weaker.

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Hope of retrieving the "black boxes" of the China Airlines Boeing 747-200 CI-611 that crashed off Penghu is fading as the signals from the flight data and voice recorders become weaker.

Taiwan media reported that persons in charge admitted Monday that they could not speculate when the black boxes might be recovered from the seabed.

It has been 24 days since the crash that killed all 225 passengers and crew aboard and experts say that the batteries in the black boxes can only last about a month.

The Hong Kong-bound jet broke up at high altitude and plunged into the Taiwan Straits some 30 minutes after taking off from Chiang Kai-shek International Airport in northern Taiwan on May 25.

Salvagers from American Global Industries began work offshore of Penghu Sunday to retrieve the black boxes as well as the main wreckage of the plane with a modern salvage ship from Singapore.

Early Monday morning, salvagers recovered two more bodies from under submerged wreckage, increasing the number of bodies found so far to 120, with 118 of them having been identified using DNA comparison.

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