An EgyptAir aircraft crashed and all 66 other people onboard died in Would possibly 2016. Now, a brand new investigation unearths that the crash took place after the pilot’s lit cigarette sparked a fireplace within the cockpit.
In 2016, an EgyptAir flight crashed and all 66 other people onboard died. (Photograph: Reuters/Consultant)
In 2016, an EgyptAir flight crashed and all 66 other people onboard died. Now, a record via French aviation mavens has claimed that the coincidence took place after the pilot’s lit cigarette led to a cockpit fireplace.
The 134-page record states that the pilot of the MS804 lit a cigarette within the cockpit, because of which oxygen leaking from an emergency masks combusted.
As in step with the record, Egyptian pilots continuously smoked within the cockpit and the apply used to be no longer banned via the airline in 2016. The record has been despatched to the Court docket of Attraction in Paris.
THE 2016 CRASH
In Would possibly 2016, the Airbus A320 used to be on its method from Paris to Cairo when it crashed into the jap Mediterranean Sea, close to the island of Crete, beneath mysterious instances.
Some of the lifeless had been 40 Egyptians, 15 French nationals, two Iraqis, two Canadians and one passenger every from Algeria, Belgium, Britain, Chad, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.
The aircraft used to be flying at 37,000 toes and disappeared about 130 nautical miles off the Greek island of Karpathos.
After the crash, a significant seek operation used to be introduced and the aircraft’s black field used to be discovered close to Greece within the ocean.
On the time of the coincidence, government in Egypt had claimed that the crash used to be the results of a terrorist assault.