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1st LD: Search vessel provides wreckage locations of crashed EgyptAir plane

Xinhua, June 16, 2016 Adjust font size:

The search vessel hired by the Egyptian government provided several locations of the wreckage of the EgyptAir flight MS804 recently crashed in the Mediterranean, official MENA news agency reported Wednesday.

"The search team and the investigators onboard the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution after it was located in the search area," MENA quoted the Egyptian investigation committee as saying, noting the committee has been provided by the first images of the wreckage from one of the spotted sites.

EgyptAir Flight MS804, an Airbus A320, went missing from radar screens earlier in May en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptians and 15 French.

Later on, the Egyptian military announced the finding of some personal belongings of the victims and small pieces of the plane wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea 290 km north of the coastal city of Alexandria. Endit