EgyptAir Investigators Race Against Time, Sea for Evidence
- Air-safety veterans say speed is crucial to recover plane
- Delayed search for still-missing Malaysian Air jet cited
EgyptAir Hunt Intensifies as Search Enters Day Two
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Searchers are in a race to reach the undersea wreckage of an EgyptAir jet before batteries powering pingers that send sound bursts to help locate it run down and evidence washes away, two veterans of undersea accident investigations said.
The Airbus Group SE A320 carrying 66 people is presumed to have crashed in the Mediterranean on an overnight flight Thursday from Paris to Cairo. After initial reports that wreckage from the plane had been found, a Greek official said it wasn’t from the missing aircraft.