EgyptAir crash wreckage found in Mediterranean

Egyptian investigators said that they have found wreckage of the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean last month.

In a statement, the Egyptian investigation committee said that "several main locations of the wreckage" had been identified, and that a deep sea search vessel had sent back the first images of the wreckage.

66 people were on board flight MS804 when it crashed on 19 May en route to Cairo from Paris. The Airbus A320 plane vanished from Greek and Egyptian radar screens, apparently without having sent a distress call.

The Egyptian investigation committee said that investigators on board the John Lethbridge search vessel, which had been contracted by the Egyptian government, would now draw up a map of the wreckage distribution.

Earlier this month, search teams said that signals from one of the "black box" flight recorders had been detected.

The cause of the crash remains a mystery. A terror attack has not been ruled out but no extremist group has yet claimed the downing of the plane. However, analysts say human or technical error could also be a possibility. Electronic messages sent by the plane revealed that smoke detectors went off in the toilet and the aircraft's electrics, minutes before the plane's signal was lost.

According to Greek investigators, the plane turned 90 degrees left and then 360 degrees to the right, dropping from 11,300m to 4,600mand then 3,000m before it was lost from radar.