The Guardian Weekly

Submarine takes part in hunt for MS804 flight recorders

- Guardian reporters

Egypt used an oil ministry search– submarine to hunt for the flight recorders of EgyptAir flight MS804, which plunged into the Mediterran­ean last Thursday, killing 66 people. The black boxes could help reveal why the Airbus A320 crashed; minutes earlier smoke had been detected on board. President Abdel Fatah al-Sisi said it would take time to determine the cause: “All theories are possible.” Signs of smoke were picked up in a lavatory and the electronic­s, according to data from the Aircraft Communicat­ions Addressing and Reporting System.

Passenger victims included 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, two Iraqis, two Canadians, one Briton, and citizens from Algeria, Belgium, Chad, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

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