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Wednesday, June 1, 2016
French confirm black box ping found
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleFrench investigators confirmed that a French naval ship has detected a signal from one of two black boxes belonging to the doomed EgyptAir flight that crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19.
“The signal from a flight recorder has been detected” by the survey ship Laplace, says Remi Jouty of France’s Bureau of Investigations and Analysis (BEA), following an announcement from Egyptian authorities that the signal had probably been picked up.
Jouty says the signal was spotted after data analysis, and a priority search area had been established.
“The detection of this signal is a first step,” he says.
— AFP
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