EgyptAir jet’s flight recorder repaired

One of the two black box flight recorders from the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last month has been repaired, Egypt’s investigation commission said Tuesday, prompting hopes it could provide clues on why the aircraft went down.
The two black box recorders were found two weeks ago, but were too damaged to extract information on what caused the passenger jet to go down.
They were sent to France’s BEA air safety agency — which also extracted data from the black boxes of the ill-fated Rio de Janeiro to Paris flight that crashed in 2009 — to be repaired, where they arrived on Monday.
The black box recorder “has been successfully repaired ... by the French accident investigation agency laboratory,” the commission said in a statement.
“Tests have been carried out ... and we can be sure the flight parameters were properly recorded,” the investigators said.
“Work to repair the second black box will commence tomorrow.”

Source: Arab News