The Egyptian government has confirmed that is has found the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804, a month after it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry said on Wednesday that an investigative committee obtained images of the wreckage.

A statement from the investigative committee said "several main locations of the wreckage" had been identified before adding that the wreckage was found between the Greek island of Crete and the Egyptian coast.

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The committee said that investigators on board the John Lethbridge search vessel, which had been employed by the Egyptian government, found the wreckage and would now draw up a map of its location.

The Airbus A320, which was carrying 66 people on board, plunged into the Mediterranean on May while travelling to Paris from Cairo, as previously reported.

The cause of the crash is not yet known but flight data indicated that a sensor in one of the aircraft's lavatory detected the presence of smoke and there was a fault in two of the plane's cockpit windows in the minutes leading up to the crash.

Air and water search teams from Egypt, Greece, France and the United States among other countries have since been looking for debris from the plane as well as the aircraft's voice and flight data recorders in the Mediterranean Sea and have only found small pieces of the wreckage and human remains so far.

Two weeks ago, French vessel Laplace also detected black box signals coming from the missing plane.
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The news about the wreckage comes days after Egyptian investigators said that they had only two weeks left to detect signals emitting from the flight's data and cockpit voice recorders as their batteries will die out.

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