a fire in the cockpit, due to a cigarette, would have caused the accident

On Thursday April 28, French experts published a report on the crash of EgyptAir’s MS 804. “When I read this report, it confirms to me that it is a company which, in 2016, was unable to enforce the regulations in terms of aviation safety“says Julie Heslouin, vice-president of the association of families of victims, whose father and brother were on the plane. The company’s A320 was linking Paris to Cairo and crashed at sea on May 19. 2016, with 66 passengers on board.

According to French experts, the cockpit of the aircraft caught fire due to a leak from an oxygen mask. The pilot and the co-pilot having the habit of smoking on board, a cigarette would be at the origin of the fire. The Egyptian authorities support the thesis of a terrorist attack, without any evidence to prove it. For Antoine Lachenaud, lawyer for a victim’s family, the Egyptian authorities and the company seek not to be held responsible.