Search teams on Friday (June 17th) recovered the second flight recorder of an EgyptAir plane from the bottom of the Mediterranean that could prove vital in establishing the cause of the crash, AFP reported.
Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo went down last month with 66 people on board, and a vast search operation has since scoured swathes of sea off Egypt's northern coast.
Egyptian investigators said search teams managed to recover the Airbus A320's flight data recorder -- which gathers information about the speed, altitude and direction of the plane -- a day after they retrieved its cockpit voice recorder.
The data recorder, which experts termed "the most important part" of the probe, was found in several pieces, according to investigators.
It was not immediately clear how much of its data would be useable, but Cairo's civil aviation authority said Thursday that salvage experts had managed to retrieve the voice recorder's crucial memory unit despite extensive damage to the black box.
Egyptian investigators supported by French experts and representatives of manufacturer Airbus will analyse its contents in Cairo.
Investigators have repeatedly said it is too soon to determine what caused the disaster, but a terror attack has not been ruled out.
