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France to start probing black boxes from fatal Mali helicopter crash

View of the entrance of the 5th Combat Helicopter Regiment (5th RHC) base in Uzein near Pau, France, November 26, 2019.

Investigators have found the “black boxes” from the debris of this week’s fatal French military helicopter crash and authorities will soon start examining them, a military spokesman said on Wednesday.

Colonel Frederic Barbry also told French TV station BFM TV that the bodies of the 13 dead French soldiers would soon be repatriated to France.

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