Some of the last words from the pilot of the EgyptAir plane that went down last week were about smoke just minutes before the plane crashed. The pilot apparently tried to carry out a “sudden descent” to extinguish a fire on board.
Amid a slew of conflicting reports, one of the pilots---believed to be Captain Mohamed Said Ali Shoukair, 37---spoke to air traffic control “for minutes” as he tried to bring the plane under control, French channel M6 has claimed. He tried to bring the plane down as his cockpit filled with smoke.
The channel reported that he told the control tower in Cairo that smoke was filling up the aircraft and was attempting to make an emergency descent to clear the fumes, according to The Telegraph newspaper.
The account contradicts the official version, which insisted there was no distress call or radio contact from the pilot before flight MS-804 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
