Cairo, Ramadan 11, 1437, Jun 16, 2016, SPA -- The cockpit voice recorder of the doomed EgyptAir plane that crashed last month killing all 66 people on board has been found and pulled out of the Mediterranean Sea, Egypt's investigation committee said on Thursday. The development raises hopes that investigators would find clues as to the cause of the May 19 crash, which remains unclear. The Egyptian committee said the so-called black box has been damaged but that the vessel searching for the wreckage managed to safely recover the "memory unit, which is the most important in the recorder." The recorder was retrieved in "several stages," the committee said, and is currently being transferred to the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Once on shore, it will be handed over to the members of the committee who will unload and analyze the data, AP reported. --SPA 20:33 LOCAL TIME 17:33 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w