France’s BEA says black box signal detected in EygptAir hunt

People light candles during a candlelight vigil for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804, at the Cairo Opera People light candles during a candlelight vigil for the victims of EgyptAir flight 804, at the Cairo Opera house in Cairo, Egypt May 26, 2016. REUTERS/Mohamed Abd El Ghany

PARIS (Reuters) – Investigators have detected a signal from one of the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804 which plunged into the Mediterranean in an unexplained crash last month, France’s aviation accident bureau said on Wednesday.

“A signal from a flight recorder has been detected,” a spokesperson for the BEA agency said, referring to the hunt for the missing aircraft in deep waters between the Greek island of Crete and the northern Egyptian coast.

(Reporting by Chine Labbe; Editing by Richard Lough; Editing by Paul Taylor)

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