Second black box of crashed EgyptAir plane found

The flight data recorder was recovered by the vessel ‘John Lethbridge’, according to a statement by the Egyptian committee that probed the crash of the Airbus A320 plane.

On Thursday, the cockpit voice recorder for EgyptAir Flight 804 was found in a damaged condition, an Egyptian investigative committee said after the the wreckage of the ill-fated plane was recovered on Wednesday.

“The device was damaged and the retrieval process was conducted in several stages,” the Egyptian committee that investigated the crash said in a statement.

The statement added that the vessel, which joined the search team last week, succeeded in pulling out the memory unit which is the most important part in the recorder although it (the recorder) was damaged.

The vessel which was contracted by the government to join the search for the two black boxes found and obtained images from the wreckage of the plane.