Detect signals from the positioning of Egyptian aircraft

Investigators receive signals from the emergency locator on EgyptAir aircraft and narrow the scope of the search.

According to NBC, the Egyptian investigators' leaders said the signal from one of the three parts of the navigation device had allowed them to narrow the search down to a 3-mile area. in the Mediterranean.

Ayman al-Muqaddam, the head of the investigation team, said a French ship had moved from Corsica to that location to search for the aircraft's black-box data recorder. The second company was hired to continue its search efforts in several other locations, where the black box might be within a 20-nautical mile radius, he said.

An EgyptianAir aircraft.(Photo: starrfmonline).

The emergency locator is a device that sends signals to satellites, used to identify aircraft wrecks or distressed vessels.

Search groups are racing against time in difficult conditions to find black boxes - devices with batteries last only 30 days. It has been 8 days since the plane fell.

But "even if it was more than 30 days, we still could not locate the black box, we will continue to search, because of similar accidents, they found a black box after a few months" , he said.

The official report on the case is expected to be published in about three weeks.

Officials still do not know what caused the Airbus A320 to carry 66 people, flying from Paris to Cairo, disappearing from the midnight radar on May 19 and falling into the Mediterranean.

The aircraft's last automated message indicated that the aircraft was too hot, had smoke in the cabin and computer malfunction, but air traffic control did not receive an emergency signal from the flight crew.