Black boxes of Brazil's ill-fated Boeing 737 found in remote rainforest

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BRASILIA (AFP) — Search teams found the two black boxes of a Boeing 737 that crashed into the rainforest of northern Brazil killing all 155 aboard, the armed forces said. Investigators hope the flight recorders will help explain why the Brazilian GOL airliner and a business jet touched in midair over a remote area of northern Brazil on Friday.

The incident sent the Boeing crashing to the ground, but the seven people on the smaller Embraer Legacy jet escaped unharmed after the pilot made an emergency landing with a damaged wing. Meanwhile, seven relatives of GOL Flight 1907's victims were flown to the crash site, where soldiers battled humidity, heat and dense vegetation to recover the bodies of the 149 passengers and six crew members who perished in Brazil's worst-ever aid...