EgyptAir Voice Recorder Point to Fire Aboard Aircraft

Miscellaneous debris from EgyptAir MS804.
Miscellaneous debris from EgyptAir MS804.

The cockpit voice recorder recovered from EgyptAir MS804, the commercial flight that crashed into the Mediterranean Sea on May 19th indicates that the crew was attempting to put out a fire aboard the aircraft just prior to it going down, sources are reporting.

Together with the flight data recorder, it shows that a possible fire broke out in one of the aircraft’s lavatories. Egypt’s Civil Aviation ministry states that the front section of the doomed aircraft’s fuselage shows “signs of high temperature damage and soot.”

No other information as to what the recorder contained was released. French investigators are still working to repair the voice recorder’s damaged memory chip. GBoth recorders were recovered from the debris last month.

On Sunday, French and Egyptian forensic experts announced that all discovered remains found on the wreckage have been recovered. The vessel, the John Lethbridge,  is currently enroute to Alexandria to transfer the remains to forensic authorities. It will return to the crash site to search for more debris as well as additional remains and flight recorders.

The exact cause of the crash remains undetermined. The pilots of the aircraft issued no distress call prior to the crash and no terror group has claimed responsibilty for the downing.[xyz-ihs snippet=”Adsense-responsive”]