Egypt Submarine Now In Search For EgyptAir Flight Data Recorders

Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi deployed a submarine last Thursday to the area where EgyptAir flight 804 crashed, he said it was an effort to locate the plane's flight voice and data recorders.

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Currently, the information gathered about what caused the Cairo-bound plane carrying 66 people to go down is still not sufficient enough. "It is very, very important to us that we know all the circumstances that caused this plane to go down," He said this in his first public remarks since the crash.

The submarine was deployed from the Ministry of Petroleum, and is able to operate about 9,800 feet below sea level said the president.

Some reporter from Reuters said, "Waters in the area of the Mediterranean under search could be [about 9,800 feet] deep, which would place the black box locator beacons on the edge of their detectable range from the surface."

And according to npr reports, French investigators said the plane sent a signal that smoke was detected in the plane's toilet minutes before it crashed. The Aviation Herald released the same data, which was apparently transmitted to ground stations during the flight.

Some Egyptian officials previously made known that terrorism is a more likely an explanation to the crash than a technical issue.