Investigators have started to examine the two badly damaged black boxes from an EgyptAir plane which crashed into the Mediterranean Sea last month.
Officials are warning it will take "lots of time and effort" to fix the flight recorders as they try to determine what caused Flight MS804 to crash, killing all 66 people on board.
Memory units from inside the Flight Data Recorder and Cockpit Voice Recorder have been dried out in a military facility for eight hours.
Electrical tests are now being performed to see whether data can be extracted from the units safely, which could reveal vital information about what happened prior to the crash.
Depending on the extent of the damage, the memory units may need to be sent abroad for repairs - delaying answers for the victims' families.
Representatives from France and the US are helping Egyptian officials with the investigation into the Airbus A320, which crashed en route from Paris to Cairo on 19 May.
A terror attack has not been ruled out, but many aviation officials are starting to believe a technical fault may have caused the incident rather than deliberate sabotage.
The crash was the third blow to Egypt's troubled travel sector in recent months.
Last October, a Russian plane crashed in the Sinai Peninsula, killing all 224 people on board, and Islamic State claimed it was responsible.
And in March, an EgyptAir jet was hijacked by a man who turned out to be wearing a fake suicide belt. No one was harmed.
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