(Bloomberg) –Investigators found the main wreckage sites of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed last month over the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board.
A search team provided images of the Airbus Group SE A320 jetliner's remains to authorities, Egypt's Ministry of Civil Aviation said in an emailed statement Wednesday, without specifying the locations. The wreckage was found by the John Lethbridge, a vessel from Deep Ocean Search Ltd. that joined the hunt to scan the ocean floor, the ministry said.
Step forward
The discovery marks a significant step forward as investigators seek the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders that are essential to piecing together what caused the Cairo-bound flight from Paris to fall from the sky. The so-called black boxes are expected to continue emitting signals until June 24, according to the aviation ministry. Without the pings, which were initially detected two weeks ago, locating the devices becomes more difficult.
Searchers "will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots" and "plan how best to handle the wreckage in the coming period," the ministry said in the statement.
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