EgyptAir Flight 804 black box recovered from Mediterranean Sea

A SECOND black box has been recovered in the Mediterranean Sea a day after a voice recorder from the doomed EgyptAir flight was found.

An EgyptAir black box is lifted out of the water. Picture: Supplied

A SECOND black box has been recovered in the Mediterranean Sea a day after a voice recorder from the doomed EgyptAir flight was found.

Now that the second black box has been recovered, it is hoped that we will find out exactly what happened to flight MS804.

The voice recorder will also provide vital details as to what happened on board the Airbus.

Investigators will be able to listen back to what the pilot and co-pilot were saying to each other in the minutes leading up to the crash.

The second box was found in the nick of time as, after today, the device would stop emitting a signal for rescuers to follow.

The recording device was broken in pieces when investigators retrieved it yesterday, but experts are still sure that they can get access the audio clips.

Both black boxes are usually found on the plane’s tail.

French vessel, the John Lethbridge, located the wreckage.

The Airbus A320 crashed on May 19 with a total of 66 people on-board, including 56 passengers, while en route from Paris to Cairo.

The cause of the crash is still unknown.

This picture shows search teams looking for debris in the sea after the EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed in the Mediterranean. Picture: AFP

Earlier this week, investigators expressed concerns that the aircraft’s black box would stop emitting signals on June 24, making it almost impossible to find the aircraft.

The crew didn’t call for help before the crash. But the plane’s Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, which sends maintenance notes to Airbus, mentioned cockpit windows, “lavatory smoke” and “avionics smoke” in the final three minutes of messages.

The Imam of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, gives condolences to Tarek Abu Laban, centre, who lost four relatives, all victims of EgyptAir plane crash. Picture: AP

The cockpit-voice recorder would relate what pilots were saying to each other during the crisis, and perhaps give hints to what controls were being moved.