PARIS -- French newspaper Le Monde says French military ships have detected signals from the black boxes of Flight 447 in the Atlantic depths. The report says a research mini-submarine, the Nautile, dived Monday to search for the boxes based on a "very weak signal" from the flight recorders picked up by the French ships. The report on Le Monde's Web site Tuesday gives no source or other details. Officials with the French military and the French marine institute that operates the mini-sub, and French air accident investigators, could not immediately reached for comment. The plane fell into the Atlantic on May 31 en route from Rio de Janeiro to Paris. All 228 people aboard were killed. The black boxes will only continue to emit signals until the end of this month.
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