The submarine was sent Sunday to join the hunt for the flight recorders from the EgyptAir jetliner that crashed in the Mediterranean and killed all 66 people aboard, while hundreds of Coptic Christian mourners filled a church in Cairo to pray for their relatives among the dead. “So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario”.
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Authorities say the plane lurched left, then right, spun all the way around and plummeted 38,000 feet (11,582 meters) into the sea – never issuing a distress call.
Sisi said a submarine that can operate 3,000 metres (9,800) below sea level had been enlisted from the oil ministry, and urged against speculation on why the plane went down.
Later the same day, Egyptian state daily Al-Ahram reported that the plane’s black box had been “tentatively” detected in an area between three and four nautical miles from the site of the crash.
However, a source at the Civil Aviation ministry later denied reports that the black boxes have been found. They told the Egyptian newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm that if the black boxes had been found they would notify the public “immediately”. Officials are still attempting to determine if the Airbus A320 crash was caused by technical fault or an act of terrorism. It was not clear whether the vessel would be able to help locate the black boxes, or would be used in later stages of the operation.
The website said smoke appeared in a lavatory near the cockpit, and that the information was transmitted through the plane’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System.
Egypt, as the crash site and home of the airline, is investigating the crash jointly with France, which is home to the plane’s manufacturer, Airbus.
Egyptian investigators looking into the crash of an EgyptAir jet in the Mediterranean said on Saturday they were analysing data including signals sent from the aircraft, but it was too soon to reach any conclusions.
Pinpointing the location of the black boxes could be extremely hard as the pingers on the boxes only emit their ultrasonic signal within a 2-mile radius.
The French Navy are searching for debris from the EgyptAir flight MS804 that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
“It has uncovered initial pieces of the aircraft, body parts, belongings of the deceased, and it will continue hopefully until we can ascertain exactly where the plane has gone down”, he told CNN. It was bound for Cairo, but disappeared from radar early on Thursday in Egypt’s airspace.
That was more than two hours before Greek air traffic controllers lost contact with them.
EgyptAir Holding Company chairman Safwat Moslem said the priority was finding the passengers’ remains and the flight recorders.
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“The families want the bodies”. The army is working on this.
