The process would take several days, the committee said, and repairs
on the plane's second black box, the Cockpit Voice Recorder, started on
Tuesday.
A flight recorder retrieved from the crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 is seen in this undated picture issued June 17, 2016 \
Data files from crashed
EgyptAir flight MS804 were sent to Egypt on Tuesday after one of the
plane's black box flight recorders was repaired in France, bringing
investigators closer to explaining the doomed jet's fate.
The
Airbus A320 plunged into the eastern Mediterranean Sea en route from
Paris to Cairo on May 19 and all 66 people on board were killed. The
cause of the crash remains unknown.
The plane's
Flight Data Recorder was repaired in laboratories belonging to France's
BEA aircraft accident investigation agency late on Monday and the data
files transferred to Egypt on Tuesday, Egyptian investigators said.
"The
data file was transferred to Cairo today for decoding, validating and
studying of data at the laboratories of the central department for
aircraft accidents at the Ministry of Civil Aviation," Egypt's Aircraft
Accident Investigation committee said in a statement.
The
process would take several days, the committee said, and repairs on the
plane's second black box, the Cockpit Voice Recorder, started on
Tuesday.
Damaged memory chips from the black boxes
were flown to France on Monday after Egyptian investigators had tried
without success to repair them. The chips should allow investigators to
begin transcribing and analysing the recordings and data which may hold
key insights into what caused the crash.
The plane
is believed to have crashed in the deepest part of the Mediterranean
and the black boxes, recovered last week, were badly damaged.
Debris
from the jet was brought to Cairo airport on Monday, where
investigators will try to reassemble part of the aircraft's frame in
search of additional clues.
The Paris prosecutor's
office opened a manslaughter investigation on Monday but said it was
not looking into terrorism as a possible cause of the crash at this
stage.