Lebanese army divers on Sunday were able to pull one of two of the Ethiopian plane's black boxes 14 days after the aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 90 people on board.
A statement issued by the Lebanese army command said the black box, retrieved around 11:35 am, was taken to Beirut Naval Base to be handed over to the plane crash investigation team.

An earlier Lebanese army communiqué said the plane's tail section -- which was thought to contain the flight recorder -- has been recovered.

"The two rear wings of the ill-fated Ethiopian plane have been retrieved with no trace of the black box inside," said the communiqué.

It said the plane debris will be taken to Beirut Naval Base.

Lebanese army divers will continue search for the black box and remains of the Ethiopian aircraft where the victims are likely to be found, the communiqué added.

Transportation Minister Ghazi Aridi said the black boxes were found Saturday morning under the "rear part of the fuselage."

"We have to be cautious because we must preserve the data contained in the boxes," Aridi said.

He stressed that special measures would be taken to bring the black boxes to the surface in a way to avoid any damage that could be detrimental to the information they contain.

Aridi said he had been informed by Syrian authorities that debris from the Ethiopian jet had been found in the sea off the western city of Lattakia.

Earlier, Aridi said that the search vessel, Ocean Alert, had located the rear sections of the plane's cabin.

He said the parts found were between 10 and 12 meters long and at a depth of 45 meters off the coastal town of Naameh south of Beirut.

The Boeing 737-800 crashed in stormy weather off Naameh minutes after takeoff from Beirut airport early in the morning of January 25.

No survivors were found from Flight 409. Only 15 bodies and a small amount of human remains have so far been recovered.

The Lebanese army said Saturday that pictures were being taken of the located section of fuselage with a view to raising it.

Black boxes are usually placed in the rear of commercial planes.

Lebanese officials have said the pilot was instructed by the control tower to change to a certain direction route, but that the plane took a different course.