CAIRO (AP) — Egypt’s investigation committee says the cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea.
The committee says the so-called black box has been damaged but that the vessel searching for the wreckage has managed to safely pull the “memory unit which is the most important in the recorder.”
Photos: Egypt Air Flight 804 crash
Thursday’s announcement comes a day after the committee said that the vessel John Lethbridge, which was contracted by the government to join the search for the plane debris and flight recorders, has spotted and obtained images from the wreckage of the EgyptAir plane.
EgyptAir Downed Plane
The Imam of al Thawrah Mosque, Samir Abdel Bary, gives condolences to film director Osman Abu Laban, center, who lost four relatives, all victims of Thursday's EgyptAir plane crash, following prayers for the dead, at al Thawrah Mosque, in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 20, 2016. The Airbus A320 plane was flying from Paris to Cairo when it disappeared early Thursday over the sea. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Egyptians perform prayers for the dead for victims of EgyptAir flight 804 at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 20, 2016. The Airbus A320 plane was flying from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew when it disappeared early Thursday over the Mediterranean Sea. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
An Egyptian prays for victims of EgyptAir flight 804 which crashed after disappearing from radar early Thursday morning while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo, at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, Egypt, Friday, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
The May 19, 2016 photo taken by the Sentinel-1A radar satellite and released by European Space Agency ESA on May 20, 2016 shows a slick in the eastern Mediterranean Sea in the same area that EgyptAir flight MS804 disappeared early morning of May 19, 2016 on its way from Paris to Cairo. Sentinel-1A acquired this image later in the day at 16:00 GMT (18:00 CEST). The 2 km-long slick is located about 40 km southeast of the last known location of the aircraft. (ESA via AP)
In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 video image released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, an Egyptian plane flies over a ship during the search in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804 plane which crashed after disappearing from the radar early Thursday morning while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo. The Egyptian army said Friday, May 20, 2016 that it has found wreckage of the missing Airbus 320 (290 kilometers) north of the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Logo in top left corner of the Egyptian Defense Ministry. Arabic at right reads, "The search of the missing plane." (AP Photo/Egyptian Defense Ministry)
In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 video image released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, an Egyptian plane searches in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804 plane which crashed after disappearing from the radar early Thursday morning while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo. The Egyptian army said Friday, May 20, 2016 that it has found wreckage of the missing Airbus 320 (290 kilometers) north of the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Logo in top left corner of the Egyptian Defense Ministry. Arabic at right reads, "From the search of the missing plane." (AP Photo/Egyptian Defense Ministry)
In this Thursday, May 19, 2016 video image released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, an Egyptian ship searches in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804 plane which crashed after disappearing from radar early Thursday morning while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo. The Egyptian army said Friday, May 20, 2016 that it has found wreckage of the missing Airbus 320 (290 kilometers) north of the city of Alexandria, Egypt. Logo in top left corner of the Egyptian Defense Ministry. (AP Photo/Egyptian Defense Ministry)
A frosted glass partition is seen at the EgyptAir counter at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris, France, Thursday, May 19, 2016. EgyptAir said a flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar early Thursday morning. (AP Photo/Raphael Satter)
An Egyptian woman, who said her brother is among passengers, grieves as she leaves the Egyptair in-flight service building where relatives are being held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. Egyptian aviation officials say an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. The officials say the search is now underway for the debris. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
Relatives of passengers on an EgyptAir flight that crashed early Thursday walk past journalists at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. The EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after swerving wildly in flight, authorities said, and Egypt said it may have been a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd el Fattah)
Relatives of passengers on a vanished EgyptAir flight leave the in-flight service building where they were held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. Egyptian aviation officials say an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. The officials say the search is now underway for the debris. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
A relative of a passenger on an EgyptAir flight that crashed early Thursday puts her hand on the window from inside a bus at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. The EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after swerving wildly in flight, authorities said, and Egypt said it may have been a terrorist attack. (AP Photo/Ahmed Abd el Fattah)
A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 804 wipes her tears as she is comforted by unidentified people at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 804 reacts as she makes a phone call at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir flight 804 is escorted at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
An EgyptAir Airbus A330-300 coming from Cairo rolls on the tarmac at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French President Francois Hollande attends a national conference on Handicap at the Elysee Palace in Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (Gonzalo Fuentes, Pool via AP)
Relatives of the victims of the EgyptAir flight arrive at a hotel where French authorities are informing them, at the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Employees work at the EgyptAir counter which reopened at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives at Charles de Gaulle airport's Mercure hotel where passenger relatives have been met by EgyptAir representatives and a team of medical and psychological support staff, outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
Relatives of the victims of the EgyptAir flight arrive at a hotel where French authorities are informing them, at the Charles de Gaulle airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives at Charles de Gaulle airport's Mercure hotel where passenger relatives have been met by EgyptAir representatives and a team of medical and psychological support staff, outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
