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02/06/2016 06:40  BREAKING According to French public TV, the Airbus A320 made 3 emergency landings during the 24 hours preceding the crash

The Airbus A320's flight MS804 EgyptAir which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on the night of Wednesday 18 to Thursday 19 May, was forced to turn around and emergency landing at least 3 times during the 24 hours before the crash, according to information from French public TV France 3 gathered Wednesday 1 June.

The aircraft made six rotations between Asmara (Eritrea), Cairo (Egypt), Tunis (Tunisia) and Paris when it suddenly disappeared from radar screens. 

In its different rotations between 18 and 19 May, ACARS messages sent to the ground signaled anomalies on board shortly after takeoff from 3 airports. We do not know yet the exact nature.

These alert procedures have caused each time a technical audit on the ground but the aircraft was allowed to take off again to continue his journey over the Mediterranean.

Also from AP via the Oz:

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.

A French ship has picked up signals from deep under the Mediterranean Sea, presumed to be from black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board.

Egypt’s Civil Aviation Min­istry last night cited a statement from the committee investigating the crash of flight MS804 as ­saying the vessel Laplace had ­received the signals.

It did not say when the signals were detected but the French navy confirmed the Laplace ­arrived in the search area on Tuesday. Laplace’s equipment picked up the “signals from the seabed of the wreckage search area, ­assumed to be from one of the data recorders”, it said.

Locator pings emitted by flight data and cockpit voice recorders, known as the black boxes, can be picked up from deep underwater.

The Airbus A320 had been cruising normally in clear skies on a night flight from Paris to Cairo early on May 19 when it suddenly lurched left, then right, spinning all the way around and plummeting 11,582m into the sea. A distress signal was not issued.

Since the crash, 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.

A Cairo forensic team has ­received the human remains and is carrying out DNA tests to identify the victims. The search has narrowed to a 5km area in the Mediterranean.
David Learmount, a consulting editor at website Flightglobal, said the black boxes’ batteries could transmit signals up to 30 days after the crash. But even if the batteries expire, locating the boxes remains a possibility.

Nearly two weeks after the crash off Egypt’s northern coast, the cause of the tragedy still has not been determined.

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