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EgyptAir Plane’s ‘Black Box’ Recovered in Mediterranean EgyptAir 804’s ‘Black Box’ Recovered in Mediterranean
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CAIRO — The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean last month has been recovered, according to a statement Thursday by Egyptian investigators.CAIRO — The cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean last month has been recovered, according to a statement Thursday by Egyptian investigators.
The recovery of the so-called black box from comes a day after the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee announced that searchers had found wreckage from the doomed Egypt Air Flight 804 scattered along the seabed. The French Bureau of Investigations and Analyses at the civil aviation authority confirmed the cockpit voice recorder had been found. The recovery of the so-called black box from came a day after the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee announced that searchers had found wreckage from the doomed Flight 804 scattered along the seabed. The French Bureau of Investigations and Analyses at the civil aviation authority confirmed that the cockpit voice recorder had been found.
All 66 people aboard the Airbus A320 jetliner bound for Cairo from Paris were killed in the still-unexplained crash on May 19, as the plane was near the end of its trip, in Egyptian airspace.All 66 people aboard the Airbus A320 jetliner bound for Cairo from Paris were killed in the still-unexplained crash on May 19, as the plane was near the end of its trip, in Egyptian airspace.
The investigation committee said in a statement that the cockpit voice recorder had been found in a “damaged state.” A team aboard the search vessel John Lethbridge, owned by Deep Ocean Search, was able to recover parts of the recorder, including its memory card.The investigation committee said in a statement that the cockpit voice recorder had been found in a “damaged state.” A team aboard the search vessel John Lethbridge, owned by Deep Ocean Search, was able to recover parts of the recorder, including its memory card.
The statement said that the device would be sent to prosecutors and investigators in Alexandria, Egypt, and then to the investigative committee’s lab for analysis.The statement said that the device would be sent to prosecutors and investigators in Alexandria, Egypt, and then to the investigative committee’s lab for analysis.
Crash investigators are expected to spend the coming days removing, drying and testing the circuits of the voice recorder’s flash memory chip before attempting to download its contents to a secure computer server for analysis.
If the recordings are readable, investigators can begin the process of transcribing the conversations of the crew and other cockpit sounds captured by the recorder – roughly two hours of data, which could provide valuable clues about what happened during the plane’s descent.
Air traffic controllers have said the crew did not communicate any emergency to the ground before radio contact was lost and the plane disappeared from their radar screens.
Underwater search teams will also continue to scour the wreckage for the second black box, the flight data recorder, which tracks more than 1,000 different data points, including the plane’s position, speed, altitude and direction when it began to experience difficulties.
Provided the second recorder is found undamaged, investigators can try to synchronize its data with the voice recorder’s to make a timeline of what happened in the flight’s final moments.
The chairman of EgyptAir, Safwat Musallam, welcomed the news of the recovery of the cockpit voice recorder on Thursday. “Of course, thank God, they found something,” he said. “I was worried they wouldn’t, but I just want quick results. I just want to know what caused this.”
So far, he said, “the search team has not picked up anything from the flight data recorder.”
Mr. Musallam said that he had been in touch regularly with the families of the passengers aboard Flight 804 and that after the discovery Thursday, they are “doing better after this, more or less.”
He said that analysis of the recorder’s data would begin on Sunday.