EgyptAir Flight MS804 : Damaged black box of crashed plane found, pulled out of sea

The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir passenger jet that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea in late May, killing all 66 people on board, was found under water, an Egyptian official investigation committee said on Thursday.

The committee added that although the black box had been damaged, a search vessel had managed to safely recover the memory unit, “which is the most important part of the recorder.”

Thursday's announcement comes a day after the committee said that the vessel John Lethbridge, which was contracted by the government to join the search for the plane debris and flight recorders, had spotted debris from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane.

According to the investigation committee's statement, the Egyptian prosecutor-general was notified and ordered that the information be recovered from the black box.

The cockpit voice recorder is on its way to Alexandria where it will be handed over to members of the general prosecution and the investigation committee.

Egyptian investigators said Monday that less than two weeks remain before the batteries from the flight's data recorders run out and stop emitting signals.
 [ahram.org.eg]
16/6/16
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