EgyptAir crash: Black box signal detected

Signals have been detected from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, French investigators have confirmed. They were picked up by the French vessel Laplace as it was searching the Mediterranean Sea. There were 66 people on board when the Airbus A320 crashed on 19 May while flying from […]

Signals have been detected from one of the black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, French investigators have confirmed.
They were picked up by the French vessel Laplace as it was searching the Mediterranean Sea. There were 66 people on board when the Airbus A320 crashed on 19 May while flying from Paris to Cairo.
“The signal from a beacon from a flight recorder has been detected,” said Remi Jouty of France’s Bureau of Investigations and Analysis.
A priority search area has been established, he added.
Laplace is using acoustic detection systems to listen to the locator “pings” given off by the black boxes underwater.
A specialist vessel carrying robots able to dive to 3,000 metres (3,280 yards) is due to arrive next week.