CAIRO – The Egyptian investigation committee says the flight data recorder of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board was recovered early today from the bottom of the Mediterranean.
Yesterday, search teams found the plane’s cockpit voice recorder.
And two days ago, officials said they had found the wreckage of the Airbus A320 and had started mapping its debris on the seabed.
The latest findings raise hopes that investigators will be finally able to determine the cause of the crash and whether the plane broke apart in the air, or stayed intact until it struck the water.
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The EgyptAir Airbus A320 was flying to Cairo from Paris when it crashed on May 19 between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast.
The wreckage was believed to be at a depth of about three-thousand metres.
Previously, search crews found only small floating pieces of debris and some human remains.
Information from the flight data recorder will be downloaded and analyzed once it arrives from the port city of Alexandria, where they will be transferred from the site of the crash.
Earlier today an official in the committee said that the investigators had already started analyzing the cockpit voice recorder after it arrived in Cairo overnight.
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