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Black Box Of Doomed EgyptAir Flight Pulled Out Of Mediterranean Sea

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork/AP) -- The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's investigation committee said Thursday.

The black box, which is one of two onboard the plane, has been damaged but the vessel searching for the wreckage has managed to safely pull the "memory unit which is the most important in the recorder," the committee said.

The recorder was retrieved in "several stages,'' the committee said, and is currently being transferred from the vessel, the John Lethbridge, which pulled it out, to the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Once on shore, it will be handed over to the members of the committee who will unload and analyze the data.

Thursday's announcement comes a day after the committee said Lethbridge, which is operated by U.S. company Deep Ocean Search that was contracted by the government to join the search for the plane debris and flight recorders, had spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane.

EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo crashed May 19, killing all 66 passengers and crew on board. Pieces of wreckage and human remains have already been recovered from the site.

The cause of the crash remains unclear.

No terror group has claimed responsibility for bringing the plane down.

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