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Egyptian air and naval forces have spotted debris from EgyptAir flight 804 that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, killing 66 passengers and crew who were en route from Paris to Cairo, the Egyptian army and Greek defense minister said Friday. (May 20) AP
The Egyptian Navy searches for missing EgyptAir flight MS804 off the Egyptian coast, north of Alexandria, Egypt.(Photo: Egyptian Defence Ministry via epa)
An automated<span style="color: Red;">*</span>system sent messages indicating smoke was detected in multiple spots on<span style="color: Red;">*</span>EgyptAir Flight 804 just minutes before it crashed into the Mediterranean Sea, French investigators said Saturday.
The discovery provides new details on the final moments of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>the flight from Paris to Cairo, but fails to shine light on a specific cause of the crash that killed all 66 on board.
Sebastien Barthe, civil aviation spokesman with<span style="color: Red;">*</span>France's Bureau of Investigations and Analysis, told the Associated Press that the messages "generally mean the start of a fire."
However, he added: “We are drawing no conclusions from this. Everything else is pure conjecture.”
A handout picture made available by the Egyptian Defence Ministry showing pieces of a chair from the EgyptAir MS804 flight missing at sea, unspecified location in Egypt, 21 May 2016.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Egyptian Defense Ministry, EPA)
The Airbus A320 crashed shortly after entering Egyptian airspace early Thursday.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>It was flying at 38,000 feet when it suddenly swerved left 90 degrees, then right a full 360 degrees before descending thousands of feet and going off radar.
Photographs released by the Egyptian Army on Saturday show little remains of the devastation — just mangled bits of debris, tattered clothing and a life vest, among other objects.
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Search crews<span style="color: Red;">*</span>returned to the area where pieces of the wreckage<span style="color: Red;">*</span>were found to look for more debris and the bodies of the 56 passengers and 10 crew<span style="color: Red;">*</span>killed in the crash. Investigators<span style="color: Red;">*</span>are eager to track down the plane's black boxes, which contain voice recordings from the cockpit and flight data.
The recovery of the black boxes is crucial to finding out what happened in the fateful moments before the plane crashed. The devices emit "pings" that can be detected with sonar, with batteries that can transmit the sounds for 30 days.
Authorities are looking for clues that terrorist may have brought down the flight, with some officials saying that<span style="color: Red;">*</span>could explain the plane's erratic movements before the crash. Aviation investigators are checking and questioning<span style="color: Red;">*</span>all ground staff at Paris' Charles de Gaulle airport with any link<span style="color: Red;">*</span>to the EgyptAir plane<span style="color: Red;">*</span>before it departed<span style="color: Red;">*</span>for Cairo, the AP reported.
Authorities have largely been cautious in providing statements as to what may have brought the plane down. But<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Egyptian<span style="color: Red;">*</span>Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi<span style="color: Red;">*</span>said the possibility of<span style="color: Red;">*</span>a terror attack as the cause of the crash<span style="color: Red;">*</span>is "higher than that of a technical error."
No militant organization has claimed responsibility for the crash. That's in contrast to when the Islamic State claimed responsibility for<span style="color: Red;">*</span>downing a Russian jet over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula just hours after it crashed, killed 224 people.
A handout picture made available by the Egyptian Defence Ministry showing pieces of a life jacket from the EgyptAir MS804 flight missing at sea, unspecified location in Egypt.<span style="color: Red;">*</span>(Photo: Egyptian Defense Ministry, EPA)
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