EgyptAir black boxes arrive in France for repairs

The damaged black box flight recorders of an EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month arrived in France on Monday for repairs, said the country’s air safety agency, amid hopes they will provide clues on why the aircraft went down.

“The BEA’s mission is to make the memory cards legible because they are currently extremely damaged,” said a spokesman for the Investigation and Analysis Bureau (BEA).

The arrival of the flight recorders came as French judges were tasked with probing the May 19 crash of the plane which had 15 French citizens among the 66 aboard, prosecutors said. All those on board were killed.

Guardian