May 31,2022 – Halit ÖZDEMİR
Not an act of terrorism but the pilot’s smoking. a French report reveals the reason for the crash of the EgyptAir plane in 2016 ✈
Six years after the crash of the “EgyptAir” plane, which was heading from Paris to Cairo, in May 2016, a French report suggested that the cause of the crash was a fire that erupted in the cockpit as a result of the pilot smoking cigarettes.
The plane crashed in the Mediterranean between the island of Crete and the coast of northern Egypt, killing 66 passengers and crew, and it was an Airbus A320.
After the incident, the Egyptian authorities suggested that the plane crash was the result of a “terrorist act”, and they said that they had found traces of explosives on human remains that had been recovered, but the French Air Accident Investigation Agency “BAA” said in 2018 that “the most likely hypothesis is a fire broke out in the cockpit, and spread rapidly, resulting in the loss of control of the aircraft.”
The 134-page investigation document, compiled by French experts, was sent last month to the Paris Court of Appeal. The Egyptian pilots smoke regularly in the cockpit, and the Egyptian company did not ban pilots from smoking while at work.
According to the report obtained by the Italian newspaper Corriere Della Sera, a maintenance engineer left the co-pilot’s oxygen mask in “emergency” mode rather than “normal.”
The cigarette ignited the oxygen and the cabin suddenly caught fire. According to the report, the aircraft’s detection system had recorded a “smoke warning” in the forward part of the aircraft shortly before it disappeared.