Final repairs on the cockpit voice recorder are expected to wrap up as early as Tuesday; CNN reported citing the ministry as saying.
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Data from one of the black boxes of a crashed EgyptAir plane showed smoke alarms had sounded on board, while soot was found on the wreckage, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Wednesday.
Egypt’s Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee today said it had successfully extracted information from one of the boxes, which it’s hoped will explain what happened to the doomed Airbus A320.
A flight recorder retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 is seen in this undated picture issued June 17, 2016.
Investigators had previously announced that the plane’s automated Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) sent signals indicating smoke alarms on board the plane before it went down.
“Recorded data is showing consistency with ACARS messages of lavatory and avionics smoke”.
Wreckage from the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May shows “signs of damage because of high temperature” and that a flight data recorder indicates there was smoke on board, a US intel source confirms to CBS News.
Egyptian authorities later confirmed that some debris from the plane and remains, as well as a flight recorder, had been recovered in the Mediterranean Sea.
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On Monday a spokeswoman for the prosecutor’s office said the inquiry was launched as an accident investigation and not a terrorism probe.
