EgyptAir Flight 804 black box recovered from Mediterranean

Egypt: The cockpit voice recorder (black-box) from EgyptAir Flight 804 which crashed in the Mediterranean sea last month killing all 66 people on board has been recovered by search teams.

In a statement by the Egyptian committee, it said;

the black box, one of the two on board the plane has been wrecked but that the “memory unit which is the most important in the recorder.” was safely pulled by the vessel searching for the wreckage.

The committee added that the recorder was recovered in “several stages,” and is currently being conveyed from the vessel, to Alexandria Egypt for onward handing over to the members of the committee for analysis.

Recall that a French vessel the John Lethbridge, had on Wednesday located the wreckage.

The cause of the crash is still unknown.