Black box from EgyptAir crash 'confirms smoke'

The Egyptair flight from Paris to Cairo plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board. Automated electronic messages sent by the plane reportedly had shown that smoke detectors went off in a toilet and in the avionics area below the cockpit, minutes before the plane disappeared.

The data recorded on the black boxes is consistent with those messages, investigators said.

The voice and flight data recorders, known as black boxes, were recovered from a depth of about 3,000 metres in the Mediterranean.

The second black box, the cockpit recorder, is still being repaired in Paris.