EGYPTAIR 804:  Blackboxes Yield No Answers

EGYPTAIR 804: Blackboxes Yield No Answers

It took nearly a month to locate and recover the black boxes from EGYPTAIR 804 that crashed into the Med on May 19 and unfortunately it has not yet been possible to extract any data.

After the boxes were recovered on June 16, they were worked on by the Egyptian aviation ministry for the last several days without success.   According to the authorities, the chips containing the data may be too far gone with salt damage to ever yield any answers as to why the plane crashed.

Because of this lack of success, the boxes are being shipped sent to the French BEA for further work to take place on the data chips containing the information that may offer clues as to what happened to the flight.

It’s widely speculated that a terrorist event took the plane out of the sky, but unusually, no one has taken credit for the crash.


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EGYPTAIR 804:  Blackboxes Yield No Answers

EGYPTAIR MS804 Reported Missing Enroute From Paris to Cairo

Reports are coming in confirming that EGYPTAIR has lost flight MS804 while it was enroute from Paris CDG, heading to Cairo with 56 passengers and 10 crew aboard.   The first indications started to come in at approximately 11:00p US Eastern Time.

According to FlightRadar24, it appears that radar contact was lost as the Airbus A320 (SU-GCC) was approaching the Egyptian mainland.   Egpytair has confirmed that they have lost contact with the aircraft so at this point it appears the worst case scenario has taken place.

No further details are available at the moment.

The flight data according to FlightRadar24: