EgyptAir Black Boxes To Be Sent To France For Repair

Egyptian investigators said on Thursday that damaged flight recorders from the EgyptAir aircraft that crashed last month will be sent to France for repairs.

They said memory chips from Flight MS804 which contain vital information will be delivered to French experts next week.

The Airbus A320 was en route from Paris to Cairo when it vanished from radar in the eastern Mediterranean on 19 May.

All 66 people on board the plane were killed. Some debris from the plane has since been recovered from the sea.

In a statement, the Egyptian investigative committee said the two recorders would be sent to France's BEA accident experts to remove salt deposits from the memory chips.

They will then be returned to Egypt for analysis.