Flight data and cockpit voice recorders of Ethiopian plane delivered to France for probe

The flight data and cockpit voice recorders recovered from the Ethiopian Airways plane that crashed on the weekend were on Thursday handed over to France's air accident investigation agency for analysis.

The black boxes' data should provide answers to why the Boeing 737 MAX 8 aircraft hurtled into the ground minutes after take off. A spokesman for the BEA agency earlier said he did not know what condition the recorders were in.