Egyptian government: EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean
On Wednesday, Egypt said a vessel has "identified several main locations of the wreckage" from EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean in May.
The plane was en route to Cairo from Paris when it went down into the water, killing all 66 people on board. Egypt's investigation committee said the vessel, contracted by the government to search for debris from the plane and the flight data recorders, obtained images of the wreckage between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast. It has the capability of detecting wreckage at depths up to 6,000 feet, ABC News reports, and the next step is to draw a map showing the location of the debris.
The cause of the crash is still unknown, but Egypt's civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, said he believes terrorism is the most likely explanation. Signals from the plane's black boxes were detected about two weeks ago, and on Sunday, Egyptian investigators said there are just two weeks left before batteries on the data and cockpit voice records expire and stop sending pings.
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