The black box was damaged and had to be carefully retrieved in stages by a salvage ship with robotic search devices, the committee said in a statement. The ship "was able to salvage the part that contains the memory unit, which is considered the most important part of the recording device," the statement said.
There was no immediate word on the fate of the data recorder. Searchers spotted the plane's wreckage Wednesday, almost one month after the Cairo-bound Airbus A320 plunged into the sea more than three hours into a flight from Paris. All 66 people aboard perished.
The voice recorder was being taken by ship to the Egyptian city of Alexandria, where specialists hope to reveal and analyze the box's contents.
The discovery came only days before the 30-day lifespan expires on the batteries for the emergency signals from the voice and data recorders in the May 19 crash. The cause of the crash remains a mystery, although Egyptian officials said last week they would soon release a report on their findings thus far.
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