EgyptAir Crash That Killed 66 Likely Caused by Pilot’s Cigarette Igniting Fire: Report

EgyptAir Crash That Killed 66 Likely Caused by Pilot’s Cigarette Igniting Fire: Report
This picture taken on May 19, 2016, shows an Egyptair Airbus A330 from Cairo taxiing at the Roissy-Charles De Gaulle airport near Paris after its landing a few hours after the MS804 Egyptair flight went missing. Thomas Samson/AFP via Getty Images
|Updated:

An EgyptAir flight that crashed in 2016 while traveling from Paris to Cairo was caused by a pilot smoking a cigarette in the cockpit and starting a fire, according to a report.

EgyptAir flight MH804 disappeared from radar on May 19, 2016, with 66 passengers and crew on board, all of whom were killed. The wreckage of the Airbus A320 was found near Karpathos Island, about 220 miles southeast of Athens, approximately one month later.

Lorenz Duchamps
Lorenz Duchamps
Author
Lorenz Duchamps is a news writer for NTD, The Epoch Times’ sister media, focusing primarily on the United States, world, and entertainment news.
Related Topics