(Bloomberg) -- Egyptian authorities said they discovered debris, body parts and personal belongings from passengers of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea in the early hours of Thursday, all but quashing any hope of survivors among the 66 people on board.
The search by Egyptian forces and supporting countries remains in progress, the airline said in a statement. Among other pieces discovered were luggage and aircraft seats. No reference was made to the search for the cockpit-voice and flight-data recorders, which could offer valuable clues about what downed the Airbus A320 on its flight from Paris to Cairo.
Salvage teams from Greece and Egypt have been joined by French investigators to find more debris as authorities seek to piece together what happened to the Airbus single-aisle jet. The flight lost contact in the middle of the night in the wider area of the Strabo trench in the so-called Hellenic Arc in the sea south of Greece, where waters are as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) deep. The debris was discovered about 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Alexandria, authorities said earlier.
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