Egyptian officials Thursday said they had recovered one of the black boxes from EgyptAir Flight 804, putting them closer to figuring out why the plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.
A specialized vessel, the John Lethbridge belonging to Deep Ocean Search Ltd., was able to locate and recover the cockpit voice recorder, one of the Airbus Group SE A320 plane’s black boxes. The device was damaged, but the memory unit that retains two hours of conversations from the cockpit was retrieved, Egyptian officials said in a statement.
The flight data recorder, which stores technical parameters on the flight, hasn’t been recovered yet.
Egypt said it was preparing to move the recovered memory unit from the ship to the Egyptian coast town of Alexandria.
The Wall Street Journal
