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The first video has emerged of debris of EgyptAir Flight 804, which crashed into the Mediterranean on its way to Cairo from Paris, killing all 66 people on board. (May 21) AP
An image grab taken from a video uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian military spokesperson on May 21, 2016, and taken from an undisclosed location reportedly shows search teams looking for debris in the sea after the EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean.(Photo: HO, AFP/Getty Images)
Egypt was<span style="color: Red;">*</span>sending a submarine to help search for wreckage of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>EgyptAir Flight 804, including the plane's<span style="color: Red;">*</span>voice and data recorders, Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>announced Sunday.
The recorders are crucial for Egyptian and French investigators because the data recorder will describe how the Airbus A320 was operating, and the voice recorder will have what the pilots were saying before Thursday's crash with 66 people on board.
The Oil Ministry’s submarine is capable of operating nearly two miles deep where the plane went down in the Mediterranean Sea about 180 miles from the Egyptian coast.
"It is very, very important to us to establish the circumstances that led to the crash of that aircraft," Sissi said in a live broadcast on Egyptian TV, according to the Associated Press.
His comments came a day after the revelation of electronic messages from the plane’s maintenance system described smoke aboard the plane. The presence of smoke doesn’t confirm whether a potential bomb or fire brought down the plane.
A series of messages included the phrase “smoke lavatory smoke,” according to The Aviation Herald, which said it obtained the messages.
Egypt, as home of the airline and the crash site, is investigating the accident jointly with France, which is home to the plane’s manufacturer, Airbus. The Cairo-bound flight originated in Paris. Investigators are eager to determine the cause, whether mechanical failure, human error or terrorism, in order to take steps to prevent future accidents.
"If they lost the aircraft within three minutes that's very, very quick," aviation security expert Philip Baum told the AP. "They were dealing with an extremely serious incident."
A picture uploaded on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian military spokesperson on May 21, 2016 and taken from an undisclosed location reportedly shows some debris that the search teams found in the sea after the EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: HO, AFP/Getty Images)
Because the plane abruptly fell below radar coverage without sending any distress call,<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Egyptian<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi had said the possibility of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a terror attack is "higher than that of a technical error."
In an eerie coincidence, vandals scrawled graffiti on the plane in 2013 that said: “We will bring this plane down,” The New York Times reported. The message was written as former Egyptian president Mohamed Morsi was being ousted by<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Sissi.
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