Submarine enlisted to search for EgyptAir flight black boxes

Egypt has deployed a submarine to search for the flight data recorders of the missing EgyptAir plane.

"We are moving hard to retrieve the two boxes," President Abdul Fattah al-Sisi said in his first public comments on the crash...


Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah al-Sisi said  that no assumption is certain why the Egyptair plane crashed over Middleterranean the last week.

"All assumptions are possible," Sisi said in a televised speech during an inauguration ceremony of a petrochemical project in Damietta governorate.

"Reaching the reasons behind the plane crash takes long time... we will announce the results once we finish investigating," he said.

On Thursday, EgyptAir said that the MS804, an Airbus A320, disappeared from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo at 2:45 a.m. Cairo local time (0045 GMT) on Thursday.

Also on Thursday, Egypt's Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy said a terrorist attack was more likely than a technical failure that caused the crash.

The flight had 66 people aboard, including 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis and nine others each from Algeria, Belgium, Portugal, Britain, Canada, Chad, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
   [Xinhua -globaltimes.cn]
22/5/16
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