The World - News from Sept. 24, 1989
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The French government said that data recovered from the flight recorders of a DC-10 airliner that crashed in Africa confirmed that an explosion at an altitude of 30,000 feet brought down the plane. The Transport Ministry said the cockpit recorder and the flight data recorder showed that the “flight proceeded in a normal manner until a total interruption, indicating an in-flight explosion.” The UTA plane, en route from Chad to Paris, crashed Tuesday in Niger, killing all 171 aboard.
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