Black boxes from Air Algerie plane to be sent to France

Black boxes from the Air Algerie plane that crashed last week in northern Mali will be transferred to France for analysis, according to French officials.

The boxes will be transferred from northern Mali to the capital, Bamako, and then delivered to Paris by French gendarmes.

The plane took off from Ouagadougou in Burkina Faso and was heading to Algiers, Algeria, when it crashed early on Thursday in northern Mali near the border with Burkina Faso.