The Egyptian investigation committee for the Egypt AirBus A320’s crash has recovered the flight data recorder from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804. The recorder was found when a French vessel using deep-water listening devices detected the signal.
The Airbus has stated that finding the recorders is crucial to understand what happened when the radar lost track of the plane. The announcement came just one day after the committee had recovered the cockpit voice recorder; both recorders were found in the Mediterranean Sea.
The committee said that the data from the recorders is in the process of being downloaded and analysed. Previously, search crews had only recovered some human remains and small floating pieces of debris from the wreckage.
With the latest findings, investigators hope to finally determine the cause of the crash, which occurred last month, killing all 66 passengers on board.
The plane had been flying from Paris to Cairo when it crashed on 19 May between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast. No extremist group has claimed the crash as an act of terror.
However, the Egyptian aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, noted last month, ‘The possibility of having a terror attack is higher than the possibility of having a technical failure.’
On the 19th May this year EgyptAir lost communication with Flight MS804; the flight, carrying 66 passengers, vanished within 16 kilometres of entering Egyptian airspace. The search for the wreckage commenced.
Egypt’s military found wreckage including seats and luggage from the plane north of Egypt’s coastal city of Alexandria.
