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A search vessel has recovered all mapped human remains under water in the Mediterranean Sea at the crash site of EgyptAir Flight MS804, Egypt’s aircraft accident investigation committee said.

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According to mirror.co.uk,  the mystery of the missing EgyptAir flight may finally have been solved.

The cockpit voice recorder of crashed EgyptAir flight MS804 indicate an attempt to put out a fire on board the jet before it plunged into the sea.

Crew members were recorded desperately battling a fire on board the doomed EgyptAir flight that crashed in the ocean, it has been reported.

The recordings are in line with data extracted on the plane’s other devices, which indicate the presence of smoke in the plane’s lavatory and avionics system, the sources said.

The investigation committee remains open to all possibilities regarding what caused the crash.

The John Lethbridge, which is contracted by the Egyptian government, headed to Alexandria port to hand over the remains to coroners and prosecution officials, officials said in a statement issued Sunday.

The vessel will return to the crash site to make further checks for any possible remains there, authorities said.

The Airbus A320 plunged into the eastern Mediterranean en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19 and all 66 people on board were killed.

The cause of the crash remains unknown.

The plane is believed to have crashed in the deepest part of the Mediterranean.

Investigators have started analyzing one of its so called black box flight recorders and are extracting information from the other.

Debris from the jet was brought to Cairo airport last week, where investigators will try to reassemble part of the frame to help establish what might have caused the disaster.

No explanation for the disaster has been ruled out.

But current and former aviation officials increasingly believe the reason lies in the aircraft’s technical systems, rather than sabotage.

Initial analysis of the plane’s flight data recorder showed there had been smoke in the lavatory and avionics bay while recovered wreckage from the jet’s front section showed signs of high temperature damage and soot, the first physical signs that fire may have broken out on the airliner.

The Paris prosecutor’s office opened a manslaughter investigation last week but said it was not looking into terrorism as a possible cause of the crash at this stage.