A French vessel searching for EgyptAir flight MS804 has detected signals believed to be coming from one of the black boxes.

On May 19th, EgyptAir’s Airbus A320 en route to Cairo from Paris crashed just twenty minutes from its final destination. According to BBC News, French vessel Laplace involved in the search mission picked up signals likely to be that of the EgyptAir flight’s black boxes. A statement from the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry said the vessel’s equipment detected “signals from the seabed of the wreckage search area, assumed to be from one of the data recorders”. Black boxes are known to emit signals for up to 30 days after an accident until their batteries run out. A second ship, The John Lethbridge, which is equipped with a robot capable of diving to over 3,000 metres - will be added to the search team this week. Debris from flight MS804 was recovered some 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. The flight took off from Paris at 11:09pm and disappeared at 2:45am when it was 10 miles into the Egyptian airspace. No contact was made before the plane disappeared. The cause of the flight crash, which carried 56 passengers and 10 crew, remains unknown.