Explanation for EgyptAir crash may finally emerge as cockpit voice recorder is found in the Med
Investigators may be able to hear what the pilot and co-pilot were talking about and the background noise as the plane crashed
THE voice recorder from the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been recovered, Egyptian authorities say.
The device, from the airplane’s cockpit will allow investigators to hear exactly what the pilot and co-pilot were saying to each other.
It will also have data from the plane at the time of the crash.
The device was discovered broken into pieces, but experts say that they can still salvage the recordings on the memory.
This could finally reveal what happened to the plane which mysteriously disappeared in May.
Flight MS804 fell into a death spiral above the Mediterranean on May 19, killing 66 people.
The plane was travelling to Cairo from Paris.
Experts are baffled by what happened to flight MS804.
The flight made several sudden swerves while en route to Cairo.
It is most commonly believed that the sudden death drops were caused by an all-out fight between crew and hijackers.
Leaked flight data has suggested that there was a fire in the bathroom and a fault with two windows in the cockpit.
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On June 1, Egyptian authorities found signals which were from the EgyptAir black box.
But so far, the all-important device has not been recovered.
Once investigators find the black box, the mystery of flight MS804 will be revealed.
But the device will only emit a signal for 30 days after a crash.
After that time has passed, it is likely that investigators will never know what happened to the flight.
Rescuers have until Friday to recover the device before it stops making a signal.
The news comes the day after the rescue crew found the wreckage of the missing EgyptAir plane.
The deep ocean search ship John Lethbridge has found several areas where the wreckage is.
The vessel recovered the cockpit recordings with a special underwater robot.
According to the Egyptian Investigation Committee, John Lethbridge “had identified several main locations of the wreckage, accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee.”
The team are now going to draw a map to pin point the location of the rest of the wreckage.
So far, the hunt has focused around the island of Crete and the Egyptian coast.
66 passengers died on the tragic flight, including Brit Richard Osman.
No group has claimed responsibility for the attack.
On the day of the crash, the plane was cruising at 38,000 feet before swerving sharply.
It turned 90 degrees to the left, then 360 degrees to the right, dropping down to 15,000 feet.
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