CAIRO, June 13 (Aswat Masriya) - The investigative committee looking into the EgyptAir plane crash said on Monday that the radar images provided by the Egyptian armed forces had the same findings as the radar images provided by the Greek and English investigators.

The radar images showed that the plane deflected to the left before U-turning and going right into a full circle, the committee’s statement said.

Reuters also reported on Monday that Egypt’s investigators accepted the US’s request to join inquiries into the EgyptAir plane crash. 

Egypt’s flag-carrier airline, EgyptAir, announced in May that its flight MS804 vanished off the radar 16 km (10 miles) into Egyptian airspace as it was crossing the Mediterranean at 2:45 AM Cairo time en route from Paris to Cairo. 

The 12-year-old Airbus A320-232 jetliner had 56 passengers on board – 30 Egyptians, 15 French nationals, two Iraqi nationals, a British national, a Saudi national, a Portuguese national, a Belgian, a Kuwaiti, a Chadian, an Algerian, and a Canadian. It also had a 10-member crew on board. 

The investigative committee said that according to the information provided by the aircraft’s hardware producers, the aircraft recorder devices are expected to continue radiating signals until June 24.  

Egypt’s Ministry of Aviation agreed to work with the company Deep Ocean Search to search for the plane’s black boxes.

The plane’s black boxes, pieces of equipment that record details about a flight and help pinpoint the cause of a crash, are yet to be retrieved.