Blackbox recorders from doomed Egyptair flight are severely damaged and will take ‘lots of time and effort to fix’ before details of crash are revealed
Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources said the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder may even have to be sent abroad to be repaired
THE black box recorders from the doomed EgyptAir flight that went down in the Mediterranean are severely damaged and will take "lots of time and effort to fix" before details of the crash can be revealed.
Egyptian aircraft accident investigation committee sources said the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder may even have to be sent abroad to be repaired.
Search teams recovered the cockpit voice recorder on Thursday and said the memory unit was still intact.
The flight data recorder had broken into pieces but also contained a memory unit.
The Airbus A380 crashed early on May 19 from Paris to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board.
The announcement comes after a French research vessel found wreckage from doomed flight 804, which also disappeared over the Mediterranean last month.
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The search has concentrated on an area between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast.
Speculation initially focused on a terror attack and a technical fault has also not been ruled out - automated messages sent by the plane shortly before its demise indicated smoke in the cabin and a fault in the flight control unit.
The crash took place seven months after the bombing of a Russian airliner over Egypt's restive Sinai Peninsula in October that killed all 224 people on board.
ISIS claimed responsibility for that attack.
However, they have not made the same claim over the EgyptAir crash.
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