Black box from crashed EgyptAir plane retrieved

Search teams retrieved the cockpit voice recorder from EgyptAir flight MS804 Thursday in a breakthrough for investigators seeking to explain what caused the plane to plunge into the sea. The Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean early May 19 on its way from Paris to Cairo. Since then, search teams have worked against the clock to locate the wreckage and recover the two black box recorders crucial to explaining what went wrong, before they stop emitting signals in about a week. Egypt's investigation committee said that a specialist vessel was forced to salvage the device in stages because it was extensively damaged, but was able to retrieve the memory unit. Egypt's public prosecutor ordered that the recovered device be handed over to Egyptian air accident investigators for analysis. <br/>