French vessel detects signals from crashed Egypt plane's data recorders

A vessel from the French navy participating in the search for the Egyptian airplane that crashed over Mediterranean last month has received signals from the seabed that might be from one of the data recorders, Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation said on Wednesday.

In a press release, the ministry said the French vessel "La Place" of the French navy, has received through its search equipment signals from the seabed of the wreckage search area, assumed to be from one of the data recorders.

Extensive search efforts are being carried out to locate the two data recorders in preparation for their retrieval by "JOHN LETHBRIDGE" which is a vessel that belongs to DOS "Deep Ocean Search," that will join the search team within a week.

The Airbus A320, en route from Paris to Cairo, disappeared from radar screens on Thursday at 2:45 a.m. Cairo local time (0045 GMT) with 66 people aboard, including 30 Egyptians and 15 French.

On May 20, the Egyptian army found debris from the crashed EgyptAir plane 290 km north of the coastal city of Alexandria.

Search operations for the victims and data recorders have been going on.