Black box confirms smoke on board doomed EgyptAir flight

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Black box confirms smoke on board doomed EgyptAir flight
By Chris Cummins | With AGENCIES



CAIRO: -- Air crash investigators say a black box recording from the doomed EgyptAir flight MS804 confirms smoke on board the aircraft.

The findings corroborate automated electronic messages sent by the aircraft indicating smoke in the toilet and the avionics area below the cockpit.

Wreckage from the front section pointed to “high temperature damage.”

A second black box recorder is being repaired in Paris.

The flight from the French capital to Cairo plunged into the Mediterranean Sea killing all 66 passengers and crew on May 19.

-- (c) Copyright Euronews 2016-06-30

[neverdie]

Where there's smoke there's fire.

Wonder if there were any lithium batteries in the cargo hull?

Surely not again.

[BudRight]

NO SMOKING!!!!!!!!

[how241]

I'm sure there will be more info soon.

[Chicog]

Nothing we didn't already know. Not sure the CVR will tell us either.

The FDR might narrow it down, but bottom line is if they really want to know exactly how this fire started, they may have to retrieve the main wreckage.