BLACK BOXES OF U.S. PLANE FOUND

ZAGREB, April 4 (Hina) - Croatian Civil Aviation inspector Miljenko Radic said on Thursday he had been informed by a US liaison officer that two black boxes of a US aircraft, which had crashed near Dubrovnik on Wednesday afternoon, had been found at the crash site. Radic told Hina that the information was yet to be confirmed by the Croatian Ministry of Maritime Affairs, Transport and Communications. The black boxes were usually in the tail part of the plane, and all passenger aircraft were obliged to have them in accordance with the International Civil Aviation Convention, he said. The two boxes included a cockpit voice recorder and a flight data recorder, Radic said, adding that their finding would make the investigation much easier. US military sources had said earlier that the aircraft had not been equipped with black boxes. (hina) vm jn 041639 MET apr 96