It sent a robot submarine to look for the plane Sunday, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said.
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“There is not one scenario that we can exclusively subscribe to. all scenarios are possible”, he said, according to AP. “So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario”, Mr Sisi said.
The vessel, which has been enlisted from Egypt’s oil ministry, has been sent to search the seabed of the Mediterranean, Egypt’s President said. They have a submarine that can reach 3,000 metres under water.
On Friday, human remains, luggage and debris were retrieved from the sea, around 290km north of the Egyptian coastal city of Alexandria.
Debris from the crashed EgyptAir flight 804 found floating in the Mediterranean Sea includes seat backs, life jackets, a baby’s blanket and a woman’s purse, new photos show.
But there’s still no sign of the main wreckage, or a location signal for the black box which would likely reveal what caused the crash.
No militant organization has claimed responsibility for the crash.
The search continues for the plane’s flight data recorder, the investigation’s head Ayman el-Moqadem tells Egyptian state-run newspaper Al-Ahram, adding that it has “large importance” to the investigation.
Although debris has been found 180 miles from the Egyptian coast, the now four-day-old search has been “extremely hard, because we couldn’t identify exactly where the aircraft had crashed”, according to Fathy.
Looking for clues to whether terrorists brought down EgyptAir Flight 804 and its 66 people aboard, investigators pored over the passenger list and questioned ground crew members at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris, where the plane took off. While it may not reflect directly on security at Egypt’s airports – which has been under worldwide scrutiny since a Russian airliner crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in October after taking off from an Egyptian resort – the country’s association with yet another air disaster will further damage its vital but now depressed tourism industry.
The plane disappeared between the Greek island of Karpathos and the Egyptian coast in the early hours of Thursday.
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The Egyptian investigators said they gathered information including data from the plane AIRMAN analysis system and ACARS communication and reporting system. An Algerian, a Belgian, a Chadian, two Iraqis, a Kuwaiti, a Portuguese, a Saudi and a Sudanese were also on board.
