(VOVworld)- One of the black box recorders from the crashed EgyptAir Flight MS804 was recovered from the Mediterranean on Thursday, according to Egyptian authorities. 

The flight crashed on May 19, killing all 66 people aboard- Source:telegraphy.co.uk

The discovery of the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) is a major step forward in determining what happened to the flight. The Egyptian investigation committee says the CVR was recovered by a special ship owned by a Mauritian company just a few hours after deep-sea robot located the main wreckage of the plane at the bottom of the Mediterranean. The aircraft went down in a particularly deep part of the sea, where depths can reach nearly 10,000 feet.  The discovery of the CVR will come as a major relief to investigators because its sonar underwater locator beacon, designed to guide investigators to the black box, was likely to lose battery power on June 24. The recorder will be taken back to Egypt for further analysis.