Crash of EgyptAir: one of the two black boxes was recovered – Le Figaro

VIDEO – Deep Ocean Search, company mandated by Egypt, located the recorder of voice after identifying the main wreckage of EgyptAir, which crashed into the sea May 19 with 66 passengers on board.

One month after the crash of the Airbus A320 EgyptAir, May 19, the team Deep Ocean Search (DOS), the Anglo-French company commissioned by the Egyptian authorities recovered one of the two black boxes, confirms the commission of inquiry headed by Egypt. “The flight recorder is damaged but the research teams were able to save the memory storage unit pilot conversations,” added the Egyptian authority. The second black box, containing technical data of the flight is always sought. The airliner was indeed features two black boxes, “one that records the voice in the cockpit on the last moments before the accident, including noise there within the plane, and one that compiles all flight parameters, data can again fly the plane, “said Paul-Henri Nargeolet, former coordinator of the research flight AF447 between Rio campaign and Paris.

“When the black boxes are found, they are constantly filmed so that there is no possible doubt about records; first by the ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle on – the unmanned submarine able to collect items to more than 5,000 meters of funds, ie) then by investigators after they are uploaded, “says specialist deep seabed.

The underwater robot DOS Photo Credits: F.BASSEMAYOUSSEEE

the day before, the French team in charge of research had located large pieces of aircraft that crashed off the coast of Egypt with 66 passengers on board, including 40 Egyptians and 15 French. The fragments are scattered over several hundred meters radius. “The area is identified and must now locate the elements that will advance the investigation,” said an informed source. The search box is located about 290 km north of the Egyptian coast, between Crete and Egypt, at a depth of 3000 meters, on flat bottoms. Since Friday, the team of French oceanographers aboard the John Lethbridge , ship specialized in research deepwater DOS and uses its unmanned submarine equipped with video sensors in this area to “recover all the parts of the wreckage required by the investigation,” said Deep Ocean Search. “The authorities can decide whether to go back parts of the device, as the cylinders that would not be in the usual positions, which give guidance on the circumstances of the device’s crash,” said Paul-Henri Nargeolet.

The study recorders could “totally help it to understand the sequence of events that led to this tragic accident,” assured Airbus. The MS804 flight, which took off from Paris soon after 23 hours on May 18, had suddenly disappeared from radar screens at an altitude of 11km above the Mediterranean, while he had entered Egyptian airspace.

the hypothesis of the attack was first advanced by Egypt, but this view has gradually lost ground in favor of that of a technical incident. The first elements: the absence of a claim, alarms signaling failures triggered on board shortly before the fall and debris now converge on the assumption of an incident. The analysis of the black boxes will confirm or not this theory.