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Egyptair blackbox flight recorders pulled from Med ‘are too badly damaged to reveal what happened to doomed jet’

Voice and data recorders to be sent to experts in Paris to drain salt from the devices in the hope that they could still yield answers

INVESTIGATORS have not been able to access the information from the black box of the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Med in May.

The voice and data recorders were highly damaged when they were discovered and will have to be flown to France to be repaired.

Egyptian investigators have been unable to download the data from the EgyptAir black boxes
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Egyptian investigators have been unable to download the data from the EgyptAir black boxesCredit: Rex Features

Flight MS804 mysteriously crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19 after falling into a death spiral on the way to Cairo.

66 were killed on the Airbus A320 which left from Paris over a month ago.

The Egyptian investigative committee said that the voice and data recorders were to be sent to experts in Paris.

The devices are being sent to Paris so experts can drain the salt from them
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The devices are being sent to Paris so experts can drain the salt from themCredit: EPA
The recorders are then expected to be transported back to Egypt for final analysis
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The recorders are then expected to be transported back to Egypt for final analysisCredit: Rex Features
66 people died on the fateful flight MS804 on May 19
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66 people died on the fateful flight MS804 on May 19Credit: EPA FILE

It is hoped that the devices will work once the salty sea water is drained from them.

Once they have been repaired, it is expected that the boxes will be sent back to Egypt for analysis.

It is believed that the black boxes will hold the key to the mystery of why Flight MS804 crashed.

The news comes as the second black box was discovered in the Med last week.

Special deep sea diving robots were able to reach depths of 10,000 feet to recover the voice and data recorders.

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The voice recorder was found broken into pieces, though at the time investigators were confident that they would be able to repair it.

On the overnight flight on May 19, the EgyptAir plane vanished from radar.

Flight data showed that the plane had fallen into a death spiral, turning 90 degrees to the left then 360 degrees to the right.

The black boxes were recovered last week by a deep ocean rescue boat
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The black boxes were recovered last week by a deep ocean rescue boatCredit: AP:Associated Press
French authorities are now helping Egyptian investigators to search for human remains
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French authorities are now helping Egyptian investigators to search for human remainsCredit: AP:Associated Press

Leaked information also showed that there was a fire in the bathroom while the plane was spiralling out of the sky.

There were also faults with two windows in the cockpit.

Wreckage was later found around 180 miles away from Alexandria.

The main wreckage was found around 180 miles away from Alexandria
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The main wreckage was found around 180 miles away from AlexandriaCredit: AP:Associated Press
Leaked flight information showed that the plane fell into a death spiral before hitting the Mediterranean Sea
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Leaked flight information showed that the plane fell into a death spiral before hitting the Mediterranean SeaCredit: Getty Images

On Thursday, it was revealed that French experts would work with the Egyptian investigators to try and retrieve human remains.

Investigators still haven't ruled out the possibility that the plane was felled by terrorists.

So far, no group has claimed responsibility for the attack.

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