Electromagnetic emission (EME) generated by fracture of carbon fibre reinforced polymers (CFRP) is studied. The fracture is induced to cross-ply CFRP by mechanical loading in a three-point bending configuration. An EME acquisition setup operating on the principle of capacitive coupling is used to measure the low frequency (kHz-MHz range) electric field whose generation is attributed to the charge redistribution accompanying the fracture processes. Multiple, differently oriented EME sensors, for the simultaneous EME measurement with different source-sensor orientations, were applied to account for the directionality of the EME sources and their generated electric fields. A method to deduce the crack orientation based on the emitted EME field's directionality is proposed. A comparison between the angles of the EME sources obtained by this method and the actual crack surface orientations as determined by computed tomography is made.