EGYPT –  What sent EgyptAir flight 804 plummeting into the Mediterranean Sea last month, remains a mystery.

Egyptian investigators have failed to extract any information from the badly-damaged memory chips of the crucial black boxes. Defeated, Egypt is now sending both the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorder to the BEA in France in an effort to help download the data. The BEA — the French version of the NTSB — are considered some the best in the world at analyzing this type of equipment. In a statement released on Thursday, EgyptAir said the French will “carry out repair and removal of salt accumulations.”(CNN.COM/photo: www.todayonline.com)…[+]