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A French ship searching the Mediterranean has detected black box signals from a missing EgyptAir flight in the waters between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast, a development that could help solve the mystery of why the aircraft crashed into the sea last month, killing all 66 on board. The discovery, announced Wednesday, could help guide search teams to the wreckage and the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders, which if retrieved unharmed could reveal whether a mechanical fault or a hijacking or bomb caused the disaster. In the two weeks since Flight 804 disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris, only small pieces of debris and human remains have been retrieved from the crash site. No terrorist group has claimed responsibility, though Egypt's civil aviation minister, Sherif Fathi, has said terrorism is a more likely cause than equipment failure or some other catastrophic event. The flight recorders will be critical to determining whether the disaster was caused by an accident or a deliberate act. <br/>

The tail cone of a Singapore Airlines plane was damaged after it made contact with a plane that was being towed at Changi Airport on Monday evening. The incident, which was first reported by the Airline Hub Buzz website, was confirmed by SIA on Wednesday. There were no passengers on board both planes during the accident, and no one on the ground was injured, a spokesperson for the airline said. The parked plane, a Boeing 777-200, was damaged after the right wing of an SIA Boeing 777-300 which was being towed made contact with it, SIA said. “Damage to the aircraft is being assessed and investigations will be carried out to determine how the incident occurred,” the spokesperson said.<br/>