![]() ![]() It’s still all speculation at this point. The ocean can reach depths of about 3,000 meters in the area where the plane went down, and is also subject to strong currents, but the black boxes can emit their signals from as deep as 6,000 meters.Ī French Navy vessel is expected to arrive Sunday or Monday, and Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sisi said on Sunday that a submarine from the country’s oil ministry has also been deployed to join the hunt, and would be able to reach a depth of 3,000 meters if necessary. The plane’s black boxes emit acoustic beacons, or pings, that should show up on sonar, but the batteries powering the signals will only last about 30 days. #EgyptAir #MS804 wreckage may be on one of the deepest parts of the Mediterranean. As of yet, search teams have not been able to locate the main body of the plane. Six countries, including Greece, France, Britain, and the U.S., are assisting in the Egypt-led search. Vessels and aircraft are scouring a 900-square-mile area of the Mediterranean in an attempt to find more wreckage and the all-important black boxes, which will ultimately clue authorities into what caused the plane to veer violently and crash. #Sentinel1 spots potential oil slick from missing #EgyptAir flight #MS804 /g5I2ab3JgG- ESA May 20, 2016 The slick is close to 1.25 miles wide, though ESA can’t confirm with certainty that this belongs to the airliner. Satellite imagery from the European Space Agency has potentially detected an oil slick in the Mediterranean Sea about 25 miles from where the EgyptAir jet last made contact, though the fuel is drifting in the current. An Egyptian military spokesperson said that this time “there is no doubt” the debris belongs to the missing jet, on Saturday the military released images and video of what they had found, including life vests, seat and carpet fragments, passengers’ personal items, and fuselage bearing the EgyptAir logo.Īccording to the Guardian, search teams retrieved the wreckage about ten miles from the “last known point” of Flight MS804. An Egyptian search team also found “body parts,” an airplane seat, and suitcases floating in the waters of the Mediterranean Sea, around 180 miles north of Alexandria, on Egypt’s coast. LATEST: Debris from #EgyptAir plane found off Alexandria, civil aviation ministry says /Ypp6zSP8vG- Bloomberg May 20, 2016Īfter a few false reports Thursday, Greek officials have confirmed they’ve recovered debris believed to be from EgyptAir Flight MS804. The jet’s last signal came at 10,000 feet. Greek officials detailed the plane’s final moments, saying before the jet disappeared it made “sudden swerves” and steeply dropped “like a rock” from cruising altitude, at 37,000 feet to 15,000 feet. The plane was at cruising altitude over the Mediterranean Sea when it lost contact with ground crews just as the airliner entered Egypt’s airspace around 2:30 a.m. A total of 66 people were aboard the jet, an Airbus 320, including both crew and passengers. Multiple smoke detectors on the plane registered the presence of smoke or fog before it disappeared from radar, and additional alarms regarding the plane’s autopilot and wing control systems indicated a serious structural problem.ĮgyptAir Flight MS804 took off from Paris’s Charles de Gaulle Airport early Thursday morning, bound for Cairo, Egypt.Debris from the missing Flight MS804 jet has been recovered, including human remains, parts of the airplane, and personal items belonging to the passengers. ![]() More information about the victims, most of whom were from Egypt and France, is beginning to emerge.Department of Homeland Security said on Sunday that “many signs do point to terrorism” though a member of the House Intelligence Committee said the evidence he had seen indicated terrorism was actually less likely - unless the perpetrator was a lone actor. Though Egypt’s president is warning against media speculation, many continue to suspect some kind of terrorist attack is to blame, due to the violent, rapid descent of the plane.The search for black box data and voice recorders, and the main body of the plane itself, continue, and Egypt’s president announced that an Egyptian mining submarine is en route to join the effort.The cause of the crash is still not known, and likely won’t be determined until the plane’s flight recorders are located and analyzed. ![]()
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