Recorder of crashed plane handed over to Egyptian authorities

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Recorder of crashed plane handed over to Egyptian authorities

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A black box of a Boeing 737, which crashed early this month off the Egyptian coast and killed many French tourists, has been discovered and handed over to the Egyptian authorities, French Prime Minister Jean-Pierre Raffarin announced in a statement Saturday.

The black box, one of the two on the plane, was found 1,022 meters under the sea and brought to the surface by the French submarine robot Scorpio, said the statement.

The second box has also been located and the work for its recovery is being pursued actively, it added.

The Flash Airlines Boeing 737 crashed shortly after taking off for Paris from the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, killing all the 148 people on board, including 134 French tourists,a Moroccan and 13 Egyptian crew members.

"In a difficult physical context, these results have been made possible thanks to the mobilization of civil and military means of the French state and of France Telecom as well as to the trustful and full cooperation of the Egyptian authorities," said the statement.

The black boxes are expected to reveal the exact cause of the tragedy, which Egyptian and French experts believe had resulted from a technical fault.

Source: Xinhua

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