Egyptian government officials on Wednesday said they have found the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, almost a month after it vanished over the Mediterranean Sea.
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The vessel then relayed the wreckage location to the Egyptian committee leading the investigation into what brought down the plane.
The passenger plane was carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo and “vanished” moments after entering Egyptian airspace.
The plane was heading from Paris to Cairo when it made violent swerves and fell into a “death spiral” over the Med.
Egyptian civil aviation minister Sherif Fathi has said he believes terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event.
Shortly after the crash, the Egyptian navy recovered debris and human remains in the waters 190 miles north of the Egyptian city of Alexandria.
The French ship LaPlace had detected pings from one of the plane’s recorders.
The discovery was the first significant breakthrough in the search for the plane since investigators said they had detected signals from one of its two flight recorder beacons, or “pingers”, almost two weeks ago.
Egyptian investigators say they have found wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing last month.
The recorders, one for voice and another for data, were contained in the tail of the plane. In several cases – such as the 1996 crash of TWA Flight 800 or the crash of American Airlines Flight 77 on September 11, 2001 – authorities had hoped to find clues in the recorders only to discover that the data inside had been damaged or the recordings had stopped suddenly.
“The signal of a beacon from a flight recorder could be detected”. The data recorder would contain technical information on the engines, wings and cabin pressure. A local affiliate of the Islamic State group claimed responsibility for downing the aircraft just hours after the crash.
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Russian authorities said that the incident was caused by a bomb.
