EgyptAir Flight 804’s cockpit voice recorder has been found and is being delivered to investigators following Wednesday’s finding of the airliner’s wreckage in the Mediterranean. A salvage team working off a ship had to take tedious steps to retrieve the recorder as it had been damaged in the crash. “The vessel’s equipment was able to salvage the part that contains the memory unit, which is considered the most important part of the recording device,” officials said in a Reuters report. The National Transportation Safety Board said Thursday it will join Egyptian and French investigators in the probe, according to Reuters.
Two vessels are still searching for the flight data recorder, which is expected to emit signals until around June 24. The Airbus A320 dropped from radar en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board on May 19. Search teams have found debris in the search area and picked up signals from the recorders on June 1. It took until this week to find the main wreckage of the jet as the ocean floor is about 12,000 feet deep in some areas.
