Sources say hunt for black boxes makes key progress

cbs ^ | May 21, 2016 9:56 PM EDT

[BenLurkin]

Search crews located the data recorders for EgyptAir Flight 804 close to an area where human remains and debris from the crashed flight have been found, an Egyptian government source told CBS News on Saturday.

Egyptian media, including state media, were reporting the same development, CBS News correspondent Holly Williams reports.

Late Saturday, a U.S. intelligence source confirmed to CBS News the data recorders, commonly known as black boxes, have been approximately located by their pings and that recovery efforts were underway.

There has been no official confirmation, and EgyptAir wouldn't confirm or deny that the black boxes have been located, Williams reports.

[Farmer Dean]

I doubt that the info from the boxes will ever be made public.

[EternalVigilance]

An early leak of the contents of the boxes:

“BOOM!”

[Vaquero]

If the ‘wrong finding’ is found. It will be heavily edited. You won’t be seeing the NTSB or any western agency touching any of those devices.

[Oldeconomybuyer]

EgyptAir doesn’t seem to be open about this incident. Lawyer’d up I suppose.

[Travis McGee]

“No, Mohammed, no! Don’t light the fuse, Mohammed, you’ll kill us all!”
“ALLAHU AKBAR!!!!”
“No! No!” (sound of coughing, stuggling)
“ALLAHU AKBAR!”
(repeat for two minutes until impact.)

[BwanaNdege]

"Authorities search for Black Box, believing that it contains answers as to the cause of EgyptAir Flight 804 crash."

(and many others)

[samtheman]

I think you got it.

[BenLurkin]

That scene just cries out for a twenty kiloton firecracker.

[null and void]

An early leak of the contents of the boxes:

“BOOM!”

Did you mean:

"ALLAHU AKBAR BOOM!"

[shelterguy]

Calling it a BLACK BOX sounds very raciss.

[Travis McGee]

Note the 57-nation OIC's logo, with the Kaaba in the middle of the world and the Islamic crescent wrapped around it.

[Travis McGee]

The OIC is in charge of choosing our "refugees."

[unixfox]

Calling it a BLACK BOX sounds very raciss.

Most of the so called media tries like hell to call it the "Flight Recorder" because they don't want to offend anyone.

[shelterguy]

Especially since the box is actually orange.

[Cowboy Bob]

There is an Islamic country in South America?

[Travis McGee]

That one had me. I think Venezuela joined it just out of insanity, showing solidarity with the anti-American OIC. I’ll have to check.

[Rio]

id="Africa">Africa[edit]

•  Algeria
•  Benin
•  Burkina Faso
•  Cameroon
•  Comoros
•  Chad
•  Djibouti
•  Egypt
•  Gabon
•  Gambia
•  Guinea-Bissau
•  Guinea
•  Ivory Coast
•  Libya
•  Mali
•  Mauritania
•  Morocco
•  Mozambique
•  Niger
•  Nigeria
•  Senegal
•  Sierra Leone
•  Somalia
•  Sudan
•  Togo
•  Tunisia
•  Uganda

Asia[edit]

•  Afghanistan
•  Azerbaijan
•  Bahrain
•  Bangladesh
•  Brunei
•  Indonesia
•  Iran
•  Iraq
•  Jordan
•  Kazakhstan
•  Kuwait
•  Kyrgyzstan
•  Lebanon
•  Malaysia
•  Maldives
•  Oman
•  Pakistan
•  Palestine
•  Qatar
•  Saudi Arabia
•  Syria
•  Tajikistan
•  Turkey
•  Turkmenistan
•  United Arab Emirates
•  Uzbekistan
•  Yemen

Europe[edit]

•  Albania

South America[edit]

•  Guyana
•  Suriname​​​​​

[Nifster]

Are they on the ocean floor?