Egypt hires 2 foreign firms to find crashed jet's black boxes

May 25, 2016 21:58

Egypt has contracted two foreign companies to help locate the black boxes of the doomed EgyptAir plane to find out what caused the aircraft to crash in the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board.

EgyptAir said that it has sough help of a French and an Italian companies in the search for the black boxes.

EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared from radar screens in the early hours of Thursday, before it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea with all 66 passengers and crew on board presumed dead.

Meanwhile, state news agency MENA quoted EgyptAir chairman Safwat Musallam as saying that the national airline company is not the body concerned with hiring foreign companies to help the Egyptian and French authorities search for the two black boxes.

He said that an investigations committee had been assigned the responsibility of finding out why the Egyptian plane had crashed and of deploying rescue teams to search for the black boxes.

Egypt's Army said on Friday that air and naval forces have found parts of the debris and some of the passengers belongings and human remains from north of the coastal city of Alexandria.

According to a technical log signed by the plane's pilot before takeoff, the plane showed no signs of technical issues before departing from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

The Aircraft Technical Log had been signed by an EgyptAir inspector at the French airport after he conducted a routine examination, Ahram Arabic news website reported.

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