Might be repaired ...
EgyptAir crash: Flight data recorder repaired - investigators - BBC NewsThe damaged flight data recorder from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last month has been successfully repaired in France, Egyptian investigators say.They say that work on the Airbus A320's cockpit voice recorder will begin "within hours".
It paves the way for experts to analyse data that could help explain what caused the crash.
Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo plunged into the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May, killing all 66 people on board.
In a statement, Egypt's investigation commission said that the flight data recorder had been "successfully repaired... by the French accident investigation agency laboratory".
The voice and flight data recorders, known as black boxes, arrived in Paris from Cairo on Monday so that salt deposits could be removed.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...alarms-soundedData from one of the black boxes of a crashed EgyptAir plane showed smoke alarms had sounded on board, while soot was found on the wreckage, an Egyptian-led investigative committee has said.
The black box had been retrieved from the bottom of the Mediterranean after the Airbus A320 with 66 people on board plunged into the sea on 19 May while heading to Cairo from Paris.
It had recorded the data of flight MS804 from its departure until it “stopped at an altitude of 37,000 feet [11,250 metres]”, the committee said in a statement on Wednesday.