EgyptAir Black-Box Pings Detected by French Search Vessel
- Second ship to join effort to retrieve data recorders in days
- Black boxes key to helping establish why the plane crashed
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A French Navy vessel picked up signals that may be coming from one of the black boxes on the doomed EgyptAir plane, a key step in finding out what caused the jet to crash last month with 66 people on board.
France’s “La Place” received signals from the seabed in the search area, Egypt’s Ministry of Civil Aviation said in an e-mailed statement. Once located, a ship from Deep Ocean Search Ltd. will join the effort to retrieve the data recorders “within a week.”