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The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been found in the Mediterranean, Egyptian investigators say. | |
A vessel with an underwater robot has been searching an area north of the Egyptian coast. Earlier, it found and photographed wreckage in the sea. | |
Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo crashed with 66 people on board. | |
It is not yet known what caused the plane to go down. | It is not yet known what caused the plane to go down. |
The plane's manufacturer, Airbus, previously said that finding the "black box" flight recorders was crucial to finding out what happened when radar lost track of MS804. | |
The cockpit voice recorder should allow investigators to hear what the pilot and co-pilot were saying to each other, plus any alarms in the background. | |
If the flight data recorder is found, it will show what the plane's computers were recording at the time. |