France’s BEA air safety agency has sent to Cairo the data file from one of the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, authorities say.
Terrorism has not been ruled out as a cause of the crash on May 19, when the Airbus A320 operating Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo went down killing all 66 people on board.
The two black boxes from the aircraft were retrieved damaged from the bottom of the Mediterranean and sent to Paris, where the electronic board from the flight recorder was repaired on Monday.
The file was “transferred to Cairo for decoding, validating and studying” at the civil aviation ministry, says the Egyptian Aircraft Accident Investigation Committee.
The process “might take several days to ensure the accuracy of reading the data recorded,” it adds.
The repair work of the cockpit voice recorder, the second black box, has also begun.
— AFP
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