Egypt Says It Has Found Wreckage Of Missing Plane

EgyptAir plane missing. File photo dated 15/6/2013 of an EgyptAir aircraft. An EgyptAir aircraft travelling from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board has disappeared from radar 10 miles into Egyptian airspace. Issu... EgyptAir plane missing. File photo dated 15/6/2013 of an EgyptAir aircraft. An EgyptAir aircraft travelling from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board has disappeared from radar 10 miles into Egyptian airspace. Issue date: Thursday May 19, 2016. See PA story AIR Egypt. Photo credit should read: Andrew Milligan/PA Wire URN:26376569 MORE LESS

CAIRO (AP) — Egypt says it has spotted the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board.

The committee said in a statement late Wednesday that a vessel contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search efforts for the data recorders and the wreckage of the doomed A320 ” had identified several main locations of the wreckage, accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee.”

Based on the wreckage locations; The search team and investigators onboard of the vessel will draw a map for the wreckage distribution spots, it added

The plane disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris. No group has claimed an attack.

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