Egypt Air black box signals ‘picked up in Mediterranean sea by French ship’
A French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea presumed to be from black boxes of the crashed EgyptAir plane.
The Egyptian investigation committee said the search for the black boxes was intensifying ahead of the expected arrival of another vessel from Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search to help retrieve the devices.
In a statement it said that the second ship, John Lethbridge, will join the search team later this week.
The Egyptian investigation committee said the search for the black boxes was intensifying ahead of the expected arrival of another vessel from Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search to help retrieve the devices.
In a statement it said that the second ship, John Lethbridge, will join the search team later this week.
Investigators are facing a race against time to find out what happened to doomed EgyptAir flight 804 before the plane’s black boxes fall silent.
The cockpit voice and data recorders are likely to hold the only definitive evidence of what caused the tragedy – which killed all 66 people on board.
But the battery-powered boxes only emit ‘pings’ to help investigators locate them meaning they are set to fall silent by mid-June.
A French naval vessel with sophisticated underwater sensors is searching for the devices in the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
So far only scattered debris of the plane has been discovered – no main parts of the plane have been recovered – including small body tissue, life jackets and personal belongings.
The device which sending off the signals can either be manually or automatically activated by an impact – sending out a distress call, which was reportedly picked up by Airbus.
It is thought that last week’s discovery dramatically decreased the search area to a 3.1 mile (5km) radius north of Cairo on the coast of Egypt.
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