One EgyptAir 'black box' recovered November 9, 1999 NEWPORT,
Rhode Island (CNN) -- The flight data recorder from EgyptAir
Flight 990 was recovered from the ocean floor Tuesday and
brought to the surface, the Navy said. The so-called "black box"
was retrieved by the robot submarine Deep Drone from the Navy
salvage vessel USS Grapple. The Grapple is being repositioned in
order to recover the plane's second "black box," the cockpit
voice recorder, located about 15 feet away. The recovered data
recorder is expected to be flown to the National Transportation
Safety Board lab in Washington as soon as possible for analysis.
The black boxes were buried amid wreckage and silt 250 feet
beneath the Atlantic Ocean. Investigators have said that
whenever a piece of wreckage is moved, sediment gets stirred up,
reducing visibility. The plane took off early October 31 from
New York's Kennedy Airport bound for Cairo before it then
plunged 33,000 feet into the Atlantic Ocean, about 50 miles
south of the Massachusetts island of