Cairo: The first audio available from the doomed EgyptAir Flight 804 indicates all was routine as the plane checked in with air traffic controllers in Zurich, Switzerland — and joked with their Greek counterparts — not long before the aircraft crashed into the Mediterranean, killing all 66 on board, Mirror repoted.
The recording was released as leaked flight data showing trouble in the cockpit and smoke in one of the toilets brought into focus the chaotic final moments of the Airbus 320, which was on its way to Cairo from Paris.
The pilot contacted Zurich late on Wednesday night, before being handed over to Italian air traffic controllers in Padua (Padova). The Zurich controller says: “EgyptAir 804, contact Padova 1-2-0, decimal 7-2-5, good night.”
The pilot responds: “This is 0-7-2-5 Padova control. (Unintelligible) 8-0-4. Thank you so much. Good day, er, good night.” The audio recording was taken from www.liveatc.net, a website that provides live air traffic control broadcasts from around the world.
Submarine used to find black boxes
Cairo: Egypt President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi on Sunday said a submarine was deployed to locate the black boxes that could provide vital clues on what caused an EgyptAir plane to crash in the Mediterranean Sea carrying 66 people, as he asserted no theory was being favoured in the probe.
“This (submarine) moved today in the direction of the plane crash because we are working hard to retrieve the two boxes, which are the black boxes,” he said, adding: “All the theories are possible.”
