The damaged black box flight recorders of an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May are to be sent to France for repairs, AFP reported Thursday (June 23rd).
The Egyptian investigative committee said the memory units were damaged from the two recorders recovered from the seabed almost a month after the May 19th crash of the Airbus A320.
Investigators hope the recorders will reveal the cause of the crash of flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo, in which 66 people were killed.
The committee said members of the panel would travel to France next week "with the electronic circuits of the two black boxes to have them repaired in laboratories of the (French air safety agency) BEA and to eliminate salt deposits".
The repaired units would be returned to Cairo for analysis in Egypt's aviation ministry laboratories, the committee said.
It also said that French forensic doctors would join their Egyptian counterparts to take part in the recovery operations of body remains at the site of the crash.
Investigators have said it is too early to determine what caused the plane to crash, although a terror attack has not been ruled out.
