A month after crash, wreckage of the EgyptAir Flight MS 804 bound from Paris to Cairo has been located in the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian i...
A month after crash, wreckage of the EgyptAir Flight MS 804 bound from Paris to Cairo has been located in the Mediterranean Sea, Egyptian investigators said.
The search vessel John Lethbridge – one of two ships contracted by the Egyptian Government for locating the wreckage , found several wreckage locations on the sea floor between Crete and the Egyptian coast.
Based on the wreckage locations, The search team and investigators onboard of the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots.
Earlier on June 1, the second search vessel LaPlace had detected signals from MS 804's black box, which was to stop transmitting on June 24.
The black boxes are located some 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) below the sea level and will need signals to within a few meters to pinpoint its position.
The Airbus A320 carrying 66 passengers and crew members crashed into the sea on May 19, shortly after entering Egyptian airspace.
French aviation safety agency BEA had earlier revealed that the Flight MS 804 had transmitted automated messages indicating smoke in the cabin and a fault in the flight control unit, minutes before losing radar contact.
The search vessel John Lethbridge – one of two ships contracted by the Egyptian Government for locating the wreckage , found several wreckage locations on the sea floor between Crete and the Egyptian coast.
Based on the wreckage locations, The search team and investigators onboard of the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots.
Earlier on June 1, the second search vessel LaPlace had detected signals from MS 804's black box, which was to stop transmitting on June 24.
The black boxes are located some 3,000 meters (10,000 feet) below the sea level and will need signals to within a few meters to pinpoint its position.
The Airbus A320 carrying 66 passengers and crew members crashed into the sea on May 19, shortly after entering Egyptian airspace.
French aviation safety agency BEA had earlier revealed that the Flight MS 804 had transmitted automated messages indicating smoke in the cabin and a fault in the flight control unit, minutes before losing radar contact.
