An Egyptian team is traveling to New York to participate in the latest phase of the probe into the causes of crash last October of an EgyptAir Boeing 767, an official of the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority said. All 217 people on board the aircraft were killed. The team, made up of ECAA officials, will obtain the data registered on the airplane’s two black boxes and will also examine the most recent developments in the probe. Investigators of the US National Transportation Safety Board suspect that one of the airplane’s co-pilots, Gamil al-Battuti, deliberately caused the crash, as the black boxes contained no data showing any technical failures. Egypt categorically rejects that theory. Meanwhile, the ECAA official said that family members of the victims, none of whose bodies was recovered, have provided blood samples so that their DNA can be used to identify bodies if they are ever found. – AFP