Paris - A research vessel with an underwater robot is set to begin searching the Mediterranean "as from Friday" for the wreck of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month, according to the French aviation safety agency BEA.
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| An Egyptian plane flies over an Egyptian ship during the search in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804 plane. (Egypt Defense Ministry, AP) |
Egypt has hired the "John Lethbridge", which is owned by the private Deep Ocean Search company, to comb the ocean floor for the Airbus A320 that went down with 66 people aboard en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19.
The ship is en route and "should arrive in the area as from Friday," BEA director Remi Jouty told reporters.
A French navy vessel using deep-water listening devices picked up signals from one of the black boxes over a week ago, but so far it has failed to locate either it or the second recorder.
"For the moment we are hopeful of managing to locate these recorders while they continue to emit [pings]," Jouty said, acknowledging "we have to be quick".
The the flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder have enough battery power to emit signals for four to five weeks.
The area where the plane went down is believed to be about 3 000m deep.
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