1st LD: Crashed Egyptian flight voice recorder's memory not damaged

The Egyptian investigation committee said Saturday that cockpit voice recorder's memory of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 that plunged into the Mediterranean in May "wasn't damaged."

"Extensive examinations on the electronic board components of the Cockpit Voice Recorder (CVR) of the A320 showed that no one of the memory ships of the electronic board was damaged," the investigators said in a statement.

However, some other supportive components associated with communication to and from the memory chips has to be removed or replaced with new ones, the statement added.

"Advanced high technology will be used to extract the recordings of these units."

If the results of the tests were satisfactory; it will enable the reading of the CVR memory unit, it added.

The investigation committee members will return back from France to Cairo soon with the fixed boards to continue reading and analyzing the date, it added.

EgyptAir flight MS804 spiralled down into the Mediterranean early on May 19 on its way from Paris to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board.

Last week, the investigation committee said the hired vessel, Lethbridge John, located several spots of the wreckage of the doomed plane in the Mediterranean, noting it was provided by the first images of the wreckage from one of the spotted sites.

A day later, the committee said the vessel found the crashed jet's CVR yet it was damaged.

The recorders arrived in Paris from Cairo last week to remove salt deposits. They will be sent back to a laboratory in Cairo for date analysis at the Central Department for Aviation Accidents of the Ministry of Civil Aviation of Egypt, according to an earlier statement from the committee. Endit