After she came back to the fore again, the story of a fall An EgyptAir plane Years ago, because of a cigarette belonging to its leader, according to what international media said, Egyptian sources responded to what was being circulated.
And she revealed that the captain of EgyptAir Flight 804 does not smoke at all for any types of cigarettes.
Effects of explosive materials
It also added that the report issued by foreign investigative bodies that the plane crash was caused by a cigarette that caught the plane’s cabin is illogical and contradicts the investigations of the Egyptian Public Prosecution, which confirmed the presence of traces of explosive materials on the parts of the Airbus A320 plane and the body parts of the victims.
The sources also indicated that foreign investigations, most of them French, had previously stated that the accident was caused by a failure on the part of the Egyptian company to maintain its planes, explaining that it was confirmed to everyone that the matter was not related to the maintenance of the plane.
Manufacturing defect or terrorist act
It also indicated that the investigation conducted by the “French office for the safety of civil aviation confirmed that a fire broke out in the cockpit and spread quickly, and caused the aircraft to lose control,” but it did not explain the cause of the fire.
The sources believed that it was possible that the fire was caused by a manufacturing defect or a terrorist act of unknown details, which is the most likely matter, but it is not related to the ignition of a cigarette.
It is noteworthy that an Egyptian passenger plane crashed on May 19, 2016 during a flight from Paris to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board.
The plane landed in the Mediterranean Sea, at depths 290 km from Alexandria.