Black boxes of crashed Egyptair flight arrive in France for repair

The two black boxes of the crashed EgyptAir flight arrived Monday in the laboratory of the Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for civil aviation safety of France (BEA) to be repaired, French daily Le Figaro reported Monday.

"The BEA's mission is to make the memory cards of the two recorders readable, since they are very damaged," a spokesman of the BEA said, cited by Le Figaro.

According to the reports, one representative from the black box manufacturer Honeywell, four investigators from Egypt and one representative from the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board were in the laboratory on Monday.

Once the memory cards are repaired, they will be sent back to Cairo to be analyzed, Le Figaro added.

Also on Monday, the Paris prosecutor's office said it had opened an investigation into "involuntary homicide" on the crashed EgyptAir flight.

EgyptAir flight MS804, an Airbus A320, went missing on May 19 en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptian and 15 French passengers. In the ensuing days, some passengers' belongings, small pieces of wreckage, and some body parts of victims were later found in the Mediterranean Sea.

On June 1, a French vessel participating in the search received signals from one of the plane's data recorders from the seabed. Endit