Deep-water search for EgyptAir black boxes to start 'in coming days': France's BEA

Paris (AFP) - Deep-water search operations to locate the wreckage and black boxes of the EgyptAir plane that plunged into the Mediterranean last week will start in the coming days, France's BEA air safety agency said Thursday.

"A deep-water search campaign will begin in the coming days with the arrival in the accident area of the French navy surveillance vessel 'La Place'," said the BEA, which is working alongside the Egyptian authorities to investigate the May 19 crash.

All 66 people on board the flight from Paris to Cairo were killed.