EgyptAir wreckage spotted, investigators say

Investigators have spotted the main wreckage from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean last month, killing all 66 people on board, including two Canadians.

Canadians Marwa Hamdy, 42, of Saskatoon, and Medhat Tanious, 54, of Toronto, were on Flight MS804 when it disappeared from radar on May 19 en route from Paris to Cairo.

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Questions remain over what happened to the doomed jet. Greek officials said the plane suddenly lurched left, then right before plummeting more than 11,000 metres, but Egyptian authorities have disputed this account and said terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure. So far, no hard evidence of terrorism has emerged, and no group  claimed responsibility.

Since the crash, small pieces of the wreckage and human remains have been recovered, but the bulk of the plane and bodies of passengers are believed to be deep under the sea.

An international effort has been underway to find the flight data recorders — the black boxes — and other wreckage of the flight.

Officials said in a statement late Wednesday that a vessel contracted by the Egyptian government to join the search efforts "had identified several main locations of the wreckage; accordingly the first images of the wreckage were provided to the investigation committee."

It was not immediately known which parts of the plane had been found, nor whether the two flight recorders were nearby. The recorders, one for voice and another for data, were contained in the tail of the Airbus A320.

Searchers have been working against the clock because the black boxes are expected to stop emitting signals on June 24.