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Black box signals picked up from missing EgyptAir Flight MS804

• AP
  
• 12:00AM June 2, 2016
  
  

Since the crash of Flight MS804 on May 19 small pieces of the wreckage and human ­remains have been recovered, while the bulk of the plane and the bodies of the passengers are believed to be deep under the sea.

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Update 16 June 2016:

Short factual report from the Egyptian AAIC:

Cairo 15 june 2016
Investigation Progress Report (8) by the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee

 

 

John Lethbridge; the vessel contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search efforts for the data recorders and the wreckage of the doomed A320; had identified several main locations of the wreckage, accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee. Based on the wreckage locations; The search team and investigators onboard of the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots.

Immediately a meeting was held between the investigation committee members to study thoroughly the progressive actions taken during the past period and in order to plan how to best handle the wreckage in the coming period.

It is worth mentioning that the debris retrieved earlier are still in possession of the forensic evidences under supervision of the criminal prosecution; to carry out standard procedures then it will be handed to the technical investigation committee after concluding such procedures. 

And from Reuters via the SMH:

Missing EgyptAir flight MS804 plane wreckage spotted in Mediterranean Sea
Date June 16, 2016 - 8:06AM

New York: A deep ocean search vessel hunting for the remains of an EgyptAir jet that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean last month has identified several main locations of its wreckage, the Egyptian investigation committee said on Wednesday.

The committee said that a vessel contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search efforts for the data recorders and the wreckage of the doomed A320 "had identified several main locations of the wreckage, accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee."

The wreckage of a missing EgyptAir plane has reportedly been found. Photo: AP

Based on the wreckage locations the search team and investigators on board the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots, it added

The plane disappeared with 66 people on board, including the crew, on May 19 while the plane was over the Mediterranean Sea. No group has claimed responsibility for a terror attack involving the plane.

The announcement has come at a crucial time for the investigation, with the flight data recorders expected to stop emitting signals on June 24. Without the "black boxes", investigators say there is not enough information to explain why flight MS804 crashed.

Debris and personal belongings from MS804 which were earlier recovered from the sea. Photo: Egyptian Armed Forces

It was not immediately known which parts of the plane had been found, nor whether the two flight recorders were nearby. The recorders, one for voice and another for data, were contained in the tail of the Airbus A320.

The Egyptian-led investigation committee had already accepted a request by the United States' National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) to have a representative join the investigation team.

Investigators said last week that radar imagery obtained from the Egyptian military confirmed previous reports based on Greek and British radar data indicating that the plane had swerved in mid-air before crashing.

Friends and relatives of EgyptAir hostess Yara Hani mourn last month Photo: Getty Images

Egyptian Air Navigation had previously said that the plane suddenly disappeared off the radar at cruising altitude around 37,000 feet. Those comments contradicted the Greek defence minister's account on the day of the crash that the plane had turned sharply to the left, then 360 degrees to the right before disappearing from radar at 15,000 feet.

That conclusion is important, said one aviation source, because it goes some way to excluding the possibility that the plane was brought down by a mid-air explosion.
France's air accident investigation agency, the BEA, which is advising Egypt on the underwater search, has said that one of the search ships has continued to pick up locator signals from one black box, whose position has been narrowed to within 1 to 2 km.
To recover the black boxes from the seabed, 3,000 metres below the surface, investigators will need to pinpoint the signals to within a few metres and establish whether the pingers are still connected to the recorders. 
AP, Reuters


Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-egyptair-flight-ms804-plane-wreckage-has-been-found-reports-20160615-gpk1pe.html#ixzz4BhbVzbzf

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