Investigators are cleaning and testing the circuit boards of the crashed EgyptAir Airbus A320’s flight recorders ahead of attempting to extract their data.
Both the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorder were retrieved from the wreckage of flight MS804 about a month after the jet came down in the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May.
The Egyptian civil aviation ministry says it is carrying out “inspection and removal of salt accumulation” on more than 200 electrical paths, to ensure that the circuitry is functional so that accurate data can be downloaded.
French and US investigators are overseeing the process. The ministry says work to map the crash site and distribution of wreckage is continuing, with a view to “retrieving [debris at] a later stage”.
Source: Cirium Dashboard
