Aircraft debris believed to have come from the EgyptAir crash in May has washed up on a beach.
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Prime Minister Netanyahu instructed relevant authorities to make contact with Egypt and to transfer the debris soon, “maybe even tomorrow”, the statement said.
Plane debris found on a beach in northern Israel is very likely from crashed EgyptAir Flight 804, the Israeli Prime Minister’s office said Thursday.
On May 19, a single-aisle Airbus A320 passenger plane operated by Egypt’s flag carrier EgyptAir plunged into the Mediterranean Sea as it had departed Paris to Cairo.
Egyptian investigators said Tuesday that audio from a recovered cockpit voice recorder revealed that pilots aboard the flight attempted to extinguish a fire aboard the plane before it crashed. The crash killed all 66 people on board. It disappeared when it was at an altitude of about 10,000 feet (3,048 meters).
“Parts of the front section of the aircraft showed signs of high temperature damage and soot”, the committee statement added.
The fix work of the cockpit voice recorder, the second black box, was underway at the France’s BEA air safety agency.
An Egyptian official at the civil aviation ministry said Thursday that Egypt has not been officially notified about the wreckage found in Israel so far.
The committee statement said the search remained for the remains of the passengers and crew.
Meanwhile, the investigation into the cause of the crash continues.
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The Egyptian investigators have said they are not ruling any theory out, including terrorism.
