A search team on Thursday (June 16th) recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, AFP reported.
The device was found broken into pieces, but the salvage experts managed to retrieve the recorder's crucial memory unit, Egypt's civil aviation authority said.
Officials are preparing to transfer the recorder from a search vessel in the Mediterranean to Egypt for analysis, a statement said.
The cockpit voice recorder keeps track of conversations and other sounds in the pilots' cabin.
The breakthrough came hours after a deep-sea robot located pieces of the main body of the plane at the bottom of the Mediterranean.
"The first photos of the wreckage do not allow to establish any scenario of the accident," an Airbus statement said.
"Only the black boxes could contribute to a full understanding of the chain of events which led to this tragic accident."
Investigators have said it is too soon to determine what caused flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo to crash on May 19, although a terror attack has not been ruled out.
