Egyptian submarine searching Mediterranean for black boxes from crashed jet

An Egyptian submarine has been sent to the Mediterranean to join the search for flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that crashed Thursday on its way from Paris to Cairo.
All 66 people onboard the plane were killed. Ships and planes from the United States, Greece, France, Cyprus, and Britain are also searching for the jet's data and cockpit voice recorders in the area 180 miles north of Alexandria; some wreckage of the plane, including human remains, has been found. The submarine belongs to Egypt's Oil Ministry, and it's able to reach a depth of 9,800 feet. In an address on Egyptian television, President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said it is "very, very important for us to establish the circumstances that led to the crash of that aircraft. There is not one scenario that we can exclusively subscribe to. All scenarios are possible."
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Catherine Garcia has worked as a senior writer at The Week since 2014. Her writing and reporting have appeared in Entertainment Weekly, The New York Times, Wirecutter, NBC News and "The Book of Jezebel," among others. She's a graduate of the University of Redlands and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.
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