Airlines had fewer crashes last year, but more deaths, an industry group reported today.

Authorities today recovered the second of two black boxes from a Yemenia Airways flight that crashed into the Indian Ocean last June with 153 people aboard, an official said.

A FRENCH navy captain said his vessel has detected the black boxes of a Yemenia Airways plane that crashed last month near the Comoros Islands.

DOUBTS over the safety of a Yemeni jetliner were at the forefront yesterday after an Airbus 310-300 carrying 153 people crashed into the Indian Ocean as it came in for a landing during howling winds on the island nation of Comoros.