Egypt says Flight 804 black boxes being sent to France for repair

Egyptian officials said Thursday they would send the “black boxes” from EgyptAir Flight 804 to France for repair, further slowing efforts to determine why the plane plunged into the Mediterranean Sea last month. Search teams a week ago retrieved the Airbus A320’s cockpit voice recorder and a day later recovered the flight-data recorder. Those were handed to the Egyptian-led team investigating the crash, which began tests on the devices Sunday. The Egyptian-led crash probe Thursday said the devices had sustained too much damage to be fixed and analysed in Egypt. They would be sent to France next week for repair before being returned to Egypt for analysis. Egyptian officials last week said the data analysis could “take several weeks.” <br/>