{"id":26136,"date":"2016-06-17T00:39:07","date_gmt":"2016-06-17T00:39:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/the-uprising-that-changed-south-africa\/"},"modified":"2016-06-17T01:05:28","modified_gmt":"2016-06-17T01:05:28","slug":"the-uprising-that-changed-south-africa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/the-uprising-that-changed-south-africa\/","title":{"rendered":"EgyptAir crash: Cockpit voice recorder recovered"},"content":{"rendered":"

{Investigators retrieve recorder’s memory unit, raising hopes of solving mystery of plane crash that killed 66 people.}<\/p>\n

A search team has recovered the cockpit voice recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month, in a major step towards establishing the cause of the tragedy.<\/p>\n

The device was found broken into pieces but the salvage experts managed to retrieve the recorder’s crucial memory unit, Egypt’s civil aviation authority said on Thursday. It was located by a diving robot operated by Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search.<\/p>\n

Officials are preparing to transfer the recorder from a search vessel to the city of Alexandria on Egypt’s Mediterranean coast for analysis, a statement said.<\/p>\n

The cockpit voice recorder keeps track of up to two hours of conversations and other sounds in the pilots’ cabin.<\/p>\n

Upon arriving in Egypt, the prosecutors would receive the device and hand it over to the investigators to access and analyse the recordings, the authority said in the statement.<\/p>\n

An investigator from France’s BEA air safety agency is to travel to Cairo on Friday to offer “technical expertise on taking readings from the recorder”, the agency said.<\/p>\n

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The EgyptAir Airbus A320, en route to Cairo from Paris, had been cruising normally in clear skies on an overnight flight on May 19 when it crashed.<\/p>\n

The radar showed that the aircraft turned 90 degrees left, then a full 360 degrees to the right, plummeting from 38,000ft to 15,000ft before disappearing at about 10,000ft.<\/p>\n

Leaked flight data indicated a sensor detected smoke in a lavatory and a fault in two of the plane’s cockpit windows in the final moments of the flight.<\/p>\n

Airbus said the flight recorders held the key to unlocking the mystery of why the plane went down with 66 people on board en route from Paris to Cairo nearly a month ago.<\/p>\n

Some wreckage had already been pulled out of the Mediterranean by search teams, along with belongings of passengers.<\/p>\n

The passengers on the plane were 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, two Iraqis, two Canadians, and citizens from Algeria, Belgium, Britain, Chad, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan. They included a boy and two babies.<\/p>\n

Seven crew and three security personnel were also on board.<\/p>\n

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