Egypt deployed a submarine on Sunday to search for the black box flight recorders of the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, according to President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi.
Body parts, personal belongings and wreckage from the Airbus 320 were found by Ships searching the sea north of Alexandria for 3 days, however the search is still going on to find the recorders which could lead to some reasons behind Thursday’s crash.
Sisi stated that the underwater equipment from Egypt’s offshore oil industry was being brought in to aid the search, “they have a submarine that can reach 3,000 meters under water” he said. The latter added that the submarine moved today in the direction of the plane crash site.
French investigators said that the plane sent a series of warnings indicating that smoke had been detected on board shortly before it disappeared off radar screens; however these signals did not show causes. Aviation experts have not ruled out either deliberate sabotage or a technical fault, but they offered early clues as to what unfolded in the moments before the crash.
“Until now all scenarios are possible,” Sisi said in his first public remarks on the crash. “So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario.”
This crash marks the third blow since October to hit Egypt’s travel industry, noting that a suspected ISIS bombing brought down a Russian airliner after it took off from Sharm al-Sheikh airport in late October, killing all 224 people on board, and an EgyptAir plane was hijacked in March by a man wearing a fake suicide belt.
ISIS claimed responsibility for the Sharm al-Sheikh bombing within hours but a purported statement from the group’s spokesman Abu Muhammad al-Adnani, distributed on Saturday, made no mention of the crash.
Egyptian Submarine Joins Hunt for Egyptair Black Box Recorders
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