EgyptAir Black Box: Smoke and More on Board

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Data from one of the black boxes of a crashed EgyptAir plane showed that smoke alarms sounded on board, while soot was found on the wreckage, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Wednesday.

In further details, the black box was retrieved from the bottom of the Mediterranean after the Airbus A320 with 66 people on board plunged into the sea on May 19 while heading to Cairo from Paris.

The box recorded the flight's data from its departure until it "stopped at an altitude of 37,000 feet," the committee said in a statement.

"Recorded data is showing a consistency with Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System [ACARS] messages of lavatory smoke and avionics smoke," it said, two days after the damaged recorder was repaired in France.

In this respect, investigators previously announced that the plane's automated ACARS sent signals indicating smoke alarms on board the plane before it went down.

"Parts of the front section of the aircraft showed signs of high temperature damage and soot," the committee statement added.

Meanwhile, repairing the cockpit voice recorder, the second black box, had also begun.

Source: News Agencies, Edited by website team