Egypt Deploys Submarine in Hunt for Airliner Black Box

May 27, 2016, 00:36
Egypt Deploys Submarine in Hunt for Airliner Black Box

"Egypt has sent a robot submarine to join the hunt for EgyptAir plane", Sisi said.

A French ship joined the global effort to hunt for the black boxes and other wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 Monday, searching for clues to what brought the plane down, as Greek and Egyptian authorities diverged on what happened to the plane during the crucial final minutes before it crashed into the Mediterranean, killing all 66 people on board.

El-Sissi says a submarine belonging to the Oil Ministry is headed to the site about 180 miles north of the Egyptian port of Alexandria to join the search.

"They have a submarine that can reach 3,000 metres under water", he said in televised speech.

The authorities, he said, were "still waiting for the plane's two black boxes to be found so as to determine the true cause of the crash".

"Until now, all scenarios are possible". "So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario".

French investigators said on Saturday, that shortly before it disappeared off radar screens, the plane had sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board.

A preliminary report into Thursday's EgyptAir crash will be presented in one month, the head of the Egyptian investigation team was quoted as saying by Egypt's state-owned Al-Ahram newspaper.

The electronic signals offer a puzzling clue to what may have happened to Flight MS804.

He said that the pilot can shut down the engine and aircrafts can operate with a single engine.

Ehab Azmy, head of the National Air Navigation Services Company, told The Associated Press on Monday that in the minutes before the plane disappeared it was flying at its normal altitude of 37,000 feet, according to the radar reading.

"It is too long for an explosion and too short for a traditional fire", said former A-320 pilot John Cox, president of the Washington- based consultancy Safety Operating Systems.

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