EgyptAir

Egyptian investigators said Saturday they would be able to access the cockpit voice recordings of the EgyptAir flight that crashed in May despite damage to the black box.

The committee said that although the recorder was destroyed, the vessel searching for the wreckage managed to pull out the “memory unit, which is the most important in the recorder.”

The black box contains vital information, including any conversations inside the cockpit just before the May 19 crash of Flight MS804, which killed all 66 on board.

A would-be passenger of EgyptAir flight MS804 said he was happy to be “lucky” enough to not board the flight. Mounir Namour had purchased a ticket for the deadly flight, but decided to stay an extra day in Paris and switched flights at the last minute, after having already arrived at Charles de Gaulle Airport.

Numerous calls were sent to the jetliner and after it failed to respond, the defense ministry sent fighter jets to the airplane’s location—tensions were high as the timing was less than 24 hours after the EgyptAir crash.

An Egyptian couple seeking medical treatment in France were among the 66 who died in the crash of Flight 804, leaving behind three orphaned children.