Egyptian search teams have detected an emergency signal from the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 that could help them locate the aircraft’s fuselage and data recorders on the floor of the Mediterranean Sea.

The discovery of the signal is a potentially significant break for the Egypt-led search, which so far has been limited to recoveries of small pieces of debris and human remains.

The Airbus A320 aircraft, flying from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew aboard, crashed on May 19.

Chief investigator Ayman Al Moqadem told Egypt’s Al Ahram newspaper that the detection of the signal by satellite narrowed the search zone for the main body of the plane to a radius of about three miles.

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