CAIRO, May 26 (Reuters) – Egypt’s air accidents chief stated on Thursday {that a} vessel supplied by French firm ALSEAMAR, which makes a speciality of marine wreckage searches, will be a part of inside hours the hunt for the black bins from crashed EgyptAir flight MS804.

Every week after the Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean with 66 folks on board, together with 30 Egyptians and 15 from France, investigators don’t have any clear image of its last moments.

Search groups are working in opposition to the clock to recuperate the 2 black field flight recorders that can supply very important clues to investigators, as a result of the alerts that assist find them in deep water stop transmitting after about 30 days.

“A ship from the French company ALSEAMAR moved from the French island of Corsica to the search area,” Ayman al-Moqadem, Egypt’s head of air accident investigations, stated.

Negotiations have been additionally underway to contract a second agency to look a couple of space without delay.

ALSEAMAR, a subsidiary of French industrial group Alcen, was not instantly obtainable to remark.

The firm has labored with Egyptian investigators earlier than. In 2004, it joined the seek for black bins after a Boeing 737 belonging to Egypt’s Flash Air crashed within the Red Sea close to Sharm al-Sheikh. The French BEA investigation company was concerned because of the massive variety of French vacationers on board.

ALSEAMAR used a specifically tailored system of “intelligent buoys” related to underwater acoustic listening gadgets within the seek for the Flash Air jet, which was in 1,000 meters of water. It was not instantly clear whether or not the identical system might be used within the a lot deeper Mediterranean waters the place the EgyptAir wreckage crashed.

The black bins are believed to be mendacity in as much as 3,000 meters of water, on the sting of the vary for listening to and finding alerts emitted by the bins.

Maritime search consultants say this implies acoustic hydrophones should be towed within the water at depths of as much as 2,000 meters to be able to have the perfect probability of selecting up the alerts.

Until just lately, aviation sources say, the U.S. Navy or its non-public contractor Phoenix International have been thought of among the many solely sources for tools wanted to look on the right frequency for black field pingers at such depths.

LAST CONVERSATION

Two French diplomatic sources stated on Wednesday Egyptian authorities and France’s BEA air accident investigation company have been finalizing contracts with ALSEAMAR in addition to Mauritius-based Deep Ocean Search.

There was no fast remark from Deep Ocean.

Moqadem stated the investigating workforce had obtained radar imagery and audio recordings from Greece detailing the flight trajectory of the doomed airplane and the final dialog between its pilot and Greek air site visitors management.

It is anticipating France handy over radar imagery and different knowledge masking the airplane’s time in French airspace and on the bottom in Paris, he added.

The seek for the emergency locator transmitter (ELT) can also be underway and targeted on a 5 km space, Moqadem stated. The ELT is designed to transmit a misery sign within the occasion of an plane accident.

Sources within the investigation committee have stated the EgyptAir jet didn’t present technical issues earlier than taking off from Paris. During flight, it despatched alerts that in the first place confirmed the engines have been functioning however then detected smoke and advised a rise in temperature on the co-pilot’s window.

The airplane stored transmitting messages for the following three minutes earlier than vanishing.

With no flight recorders to examine and solely fragmentary knowledge from a handful of fault messages, investigators are additionally seeking to particles and physique components for clues.

Moqadem stated no our bodies had been recovered thus far, with search groups solely capable of find small physique components. DNA checks are underway to determine the stays.

He stated a report can be issued by the investigating workforce one month from the date of the crash. (Writing by Lin Noueihed, further reporting by Tim Hepher in Paris, Editing by Ahmed Aboulenein and Ralph Boulton)

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