EgyptAir ‘black box’ voice recorder pulled from sea

The cockpit voice recorder of the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt’s investigation committee said.

The Egyptian committee said the so-called black box — one of the two on board the plane that crashed on May 19 — has been damaged but the search vessel managed to safely pull the “memory unit which is the most important in the recorder.”

The recorder was retrieved in “several stages,” the committee said, and is currently being transferred from the vessel, the John Lethbridge, which pulled it out, to the Egyptian port city of Alexandria.