Deep-sea hunt for Egypt

A French ship specializing in marine wreckage searches is to join the hunt for the black boxes of EgyptAir flight MS804, that crashed in deep water in the Mediterranean Sea on May 19

GREECE

Athens

Kasos

Crete

MEDITERRANEAN SEA

LIBYA

100km 60 miles

Flight from Paris to Cairo had 66 people on board

TURKEY

CYPRUS

Elevation cross section

Strabo Trench

Herodotus Plain

Levantine Basin

Alexandria

EGYPT

Cairo

Last recorded position: 37,000ft (11,000m)Air flight

Elevation cross section (metres)

0 1,000 2,000 3,000

Mainland Greece 

Kasos

Strabo Trench

Depth: 3,000m

Herodotus Plain

Egypt

Cockpit Voice Recorder 32cm

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Sources: FlightRadar24, Alseamar, Google Earth