CAIRO, June 16 (UPI) -- Although searchers have located one of the "black boxes" from EgyptAir Flight MS804, it might not provide the answers investigators hope it will.
Egyptian authorities said Thursday the cockpit voice recorder -- a tape recording of everything that's said among the crew on the flight deck -- is damaged.
"The cockpit voice recorder was retrieved in several stages, as it was damaged, but the vessel equipment managed to pick up the memory unit; which is considered as the most important part," the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation said in a statement Thursday.
Using various laboratory methods, investigators might still be able to salvage the tape recording -- which can provide vital clues about what happened to the flight.
The CVR was located after search teams found the plane's wreckage in the Mediterranean Sea on Wednesday. The other "black box," though, the flight data recorder, is still missing.
The search for the wreckage is being conducted by Deep Ocean Search.
