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Doomed EgyptAir flight broke up midair after fire ASIA

Doomed EgyptAir flight broke up midair after fire

An EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean in May likely broke up in midair after a fire erupted in or near the cockpit, the New York Times reported Friday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Word 'fire' heard on voice recorder of doomed EgyptAir ASIA

Word 'fire' heard on voice recorder of doomed EgyptAir

The word "fire" is heard on the cockpit voice recorder of EgyptAir 804 before the plane crashed into the Mediterranean in May, an Egyptian-led investigative committee said Saturday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Families of EgyptAir crash victims to get compensation ASIA

Families of EgyptAir crash victims to get compensation

EgyptAir said Monday advance compensation payments of $25,000 will be offered to families of the 66 people killed when one of its planes crashed into the Mediterranean last month.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Egypt investigators repair crashed jet's black box memory units ASIA

Egypt investigators repair crashed jet's black box memory units

Egyptian aviation investigators will finish on Monday repairing memory units from the black box recorders of an EgyptAir flight that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, a senior investigation official said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Investigators examine damaged EgyptAir black boxes ASIA

Investigators examine damaged EgyptAir black boxes

Investigators have begun analysing the two severely damaged black boxes from EgyptAir flight MS804 as they seek to explain why the plane plunged into the sea, killing all 66 people on board.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Second black box recovered from EgyptAir crash site ASIA

Second black box recovered from EgyptAir crash site

Search teams on Friday recovered the second flight recorder of an EgyptAir plane from the bottom of the Mediterranean that could prove vital in establishing the cause of the unexplained crash.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Black box from crashed EgyptAir plane retrieved ASIA

Black box from crashed EgyptAir plane retrieved

The cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 has been retrieved by search teams in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to crash into the sea killing all 66 people on board.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Egyptian investigators say black boxes to emit signal until June 24 ASIA

Egyptian investigators say black boxes to emit signal until June 24

The black boxes from an EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean last month will continue emitting a signal from beneath the sea until June 24, a statement from the Egyptian investigation committee said.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Bomb hoax: EgyptAir plane makes emergency landing in Uzbekistan ASIA

Bomb hoax: EgyptAir plane makes emergency landing in Uzbekistan

An EgyptAir passenger plane en route from Cairo to Beijing was forced to make an emergency landing in Uzbekistan on Wednesday after receiving a security threat that the airline said turned out to be a hoax.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed after signal detected ASIA

EgyptAir black box search zone narrowed after signal detected

The search zone for the crashed EgyptAir jet has been narrowed to 2 km from 5 km after a vessel picked up a signal from one of the black boxes, an Egyptian source on the investigation committee said on Thursday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
French survey ship joins EgyptAir plane search ASIA

French survey ship joins EgyptAir plane search

A specially equipped French vessel has joined the search for the black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir flight lost in the Mediterranean, a navy spokesman announced Tuesday.

4:45 AM November 25 2016
Private firm hired to hunt for EgyptAir black boxes ASIA

Private firm hired to hunt for EgyptAir black boxes

Egypt has hired a private firm to help find EgyptAir MS804's black boxes in an area narrowed down by an emergency signal sent when it hit the Mediterranean last week.

4:45 AM November 25 2016