Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from
EgyptAir flight MS804 on Thursday in a breakthrough for investigators seeking
to explain what caused the plane to plunge into the sea, killing all 66 people
on board.
The Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean early on May
19 on its way from Paris to Cairo.
Egypt's investigation committee said in a statement that a
specialist vessel owned by Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search was forced to
salvage the device in stages because it was extensively damaged, but was able
to retrieve the memory unit.
"The vessel's equipment was able to salvage the part
that contains the memory unit, which is considered the most important part of
the recording device," the statement said.
Egypt's public prosecutor ordered that the recovered device
be handed over to Egyptian air accident investigators for analysis.
Two specialist vessels, John Lethbridge and Laplace, are
continuing to search for the second black box, which contains the flight data
recorder. They have yet to detect signals from that device but have identified
the location of the main parts of the wreckage.
The black boxes are usually located in the tail, so finding
the wreckage and one of the devices narrows the search.
Source: Reuters
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