Egyptian government: EgyptAir wreckage found in Mediterranean

A candlelight vigil for the victims of EgyptAir Flight 804.
(Image credit: Khaled Desouki/AFP/Getty Images)

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.

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Catherine Garcia, The Week US

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.