EgyptAir will contract two foreign companies, one French and one Italian, to help search for the black boxes of its plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, its chairman says.
EgyptAir flight 804 crashed on Thursday with 66 people on board including 30 Egyptians and 15 from France in an area of the Mediterranean where the waters can be 3,000 metres deep.
"We have contracted a French and an Italian company to conduct deep sea searching in the Mediterranean, 3,000 metres deep," EgyptAir chairman Safwat Musallam told a news conference.
The plane and its black box recorders, which could explain what brought down the Paris-to-Cairo flight as it entered Egyptian air space, have not been located.
No technical problems at take-off: reports
On Tuesday, sources within the Egyptian investigation committee said the jet did not show technical problems before taking off from Paris.
The sources said the plane did not make contact with Egyptian air traffic control, but Egyptian air traffic controllers were able to see it on radar on a border area between Egyptian and Greek airspace known as KUMBI, 260 nautical miles from Cairo.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the plane disappeared without swerving off radar screens after less than a minute of it entering Egyptian airspace.
Air traffic controllers from Greece and Egypt have given differing accounts of the plane's final moments.
Egypt's state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday that the plane had shown no technical problems before taking off, citing an Aircraft Technical Log signed by its pilot before takeoff.
Investigators are looking for clues in the debris and human remains recovered so far from the Mediterranean Sea.
The sources said the plane did not make contact with Egyptian air traffic control, but Egyptian air traffic controllers were able to see it on radar on a border area between Egyptian and Greek airspace known as KUMBI, 260 nautical miles from Cairo.
Speaking on condition of anonymity, the sources said the plane disappeared without swerving off radar screens after less than a minute of it entering Egyptian airspace.
Air traffic controllers from Greece and Egypt have given differing accounts of the plane's final moments.
Egypt's state-owned newspaper Al-Ahram reported on Tuesday that the plane had shown no technical problems before taking off, citing an Aircraft Technical Log signed by its pilot before takeoff.
Investigators are looking for clues in the debris and human remains recovered so far from the Mediterranean Sea.
(Culled from www.abc.net.au)
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