Rescue teams in Libya have recovered two flight recorders from the wreck of a plane that crashed off the coast last week, killing at least eighteen people.

The voice and data recorders were found by divers and are now being sent to Britain to the British Department of Transport's Air Accident Investigation Branch to be examined.

More than forty people, mostly local and foreign oil workers, were on board when the Swiss-charter plane crashed just off the Libyan coast.

From the newsroom of the BBC World Service