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EgyptAir Flight MS804 Wreckage Found

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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."

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
Debris and personal belongings from MS804 which were earlier recovered from the sea.
The Airbus A320 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.

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.

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 and Reuters

http://www.smh.com.au/world/missing-egy ... pk1pe.html
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Re: EgyptAir Flight MS804 Wreckage Found

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Good they finally found the wreckage. Another aviation tragedy :( :( :(
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