Nuclear sub reaches Air France crash site

A FRENCH nuclear submarine has reached the crash zone of Air France Flight 447 to join the search for the plane’s black boxes, the key to determining what brought the Airbus down in the sea off Brazil with 228 people on board.

The attack sub Emeraude plans to trawl 35sq km a day, using sonar to try to pick up the boxes’ acoustic beacons or “pingers,” French armed forces spokesman Christophe Prazuck said yesterday.

It’s a race against time, because the beacons will start to fade 30 days after the May 31 crash.