A deep ocean search vessel hunting for the remains of an EgyptAir plane that crashed in the eastern Mediterranean last month has identified several main locations of its wreckage, the Egyptian investigation committee has said.
The vessel, John Lethbridge, has provided the first images of wreckage to investigators. A search team on board the vessel will now draw a map of the wreckage's distribution spots, the committee said in a statement.
It said the pieces of fuselage were found at "several sites".
Signals from the flight data recorders needed to track them down on the seabed are expected to expire on 24 June.
It was not immediately known which parts of the plane had been found, nor whether the two flight recorders were nearby.
The recorders, one for voice and another for data, were contained in the tail of the plane.
Previously collected debris will also be handed over to the investigation committee after "standard procedures" are completed by prosecutors who are currently holding it for forensic evidence, the statement added.
To recover the black boxes some 3,000 metres (10,000 ft) below the sea surface, investigators will need to pinpoint the signals to within a few metres and establish whether the pingers are still connected to the recorders.
