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An EgyptAir airliner that crashed while flying to Cairo killing all 66 people on board was shot down by the pilot’s cigarette in the cockpit which then caused a fire, according to a new report on the incident.
The plane was flying on May 19, 2016, from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris to Cairo International Airport when it crashed somewhere between the Greek island of Crete and northern Egypt.
But the French civil aviation investigation office has already concluded that pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair, who was smoking in the cockpit of the Airbus A320, had also caused a fire triggered by the leak of an oxygen mask into the cockpit.
The plane crash killed 56 passengers and 10 crew members, including 12 French, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, a Canadian and a British man.
Egyptian authorities had said the crash came as a result of a terrorist attack claiming that traces of explosives had been found on the bodies of the victims, but the allegations have been refuted.
In 2018, the French aviation agency BEA said the flight was shot down by a fire on board, based on the aircraft’s black box analysis. The latter were recovered from water by the Czech and American navies.
In March 2022, the French report said that an oxygen leak from the pilot mask was the cause of the fire, according to them from the recording of the oxygen outflow noise.
The oxygen mask in question had been replaced a few days before the tragedy, but for unknown reasons was placed in the “emergency” position, which according to the Airbus manual, could cause oxygen leakage.
At the time of the accident, EgyptAir pilots were allowed to smoke in the cockpit, which combined with the flow of oxygen, created the conditions for fire, according to French aviation experts.
The crashed plane is already the subject of a negligent homicide lawsuit in the Paris Court of Appeal.
Egypt has drafted its 2018 report on the event, dismissing the BEA claims, calling them “baseless.”
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