Crashed EgyptAir MS804 plane wreckage found

                                      The vessel                                  (C)Reuters

A deep ocean search vessel has identified the remains of the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean, killing 66 people on board, according to Egyptian authorities. The investigation committee said in a statement late on Wednesday that the vessel "had identified several main locations of the wreckage, accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee."
The vessel was contracted by Egypt to join the search efforts for the flight data recorders and the wreckage. A search team on board the vessel will now draw a map of the wreckage's distribution spots, the committee said in a statement. The Airbus A320 disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris in May. No group has claimed responsibility for the crash. It was not immediately known which parts of the plane had been found, nor whether the two flight recorders were nearby. The recorders, one for voice and another for data, were contained in the tail of the plane. Signals from the data recorders needed to track them down on the seabed are expected to expire on June 24.
To recover the black boxes some 3,000 metres below the sea surface, investigators will need to pinpoint the signals to within a few metres and establish whether the pingers are still connected to the recorders.

Source: Aljazeera