EgyptAir black box signals detected in Mediterranean

A French company has confirmed that its special undersea search ship has detected signals from one of the black box flight recorders on the EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.

Alseamar said the Laplace ship started searching for the signals at midday yesterday, and “less than 24 hours were necessary ... to locate signals from a detector attached to one of the recorders of flight MS804”.

The French air accident investigation agency BEA said it is impossible to determine from the signals whether it is the flight’s data or voice recorder.