BANGKOK: Investigators have detected a signal from a black box recorder of a Lao Airlines plane, which plunged into the Mekong River killing all 49 people on board, officials said on Monday.

The airline said the bodies of 43 of the victims had been recovered from the swollen river in Laos, some many kilometers downstream from the crash site.

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