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EgyptAir plane crash: pilots were smoking in the cabin

According to French report aircraft crashed into sea due to fire caused by oxygen leakage

A document sent to the Paris court of appeal about a month ago would shed new light on the Paris-Cairo air link (flight MS804), operated by EgyptAir with A-320 aircraft, which had crashed in the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, 2016, killing all 66 people on board. According to the dossier, the pilots in all probability were smoking: this would be the cause of the fire that broke out in the cockpit due...

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Cairo, Egypt, 04/26/2022 11:20
AVIONEWS - World Aeronautical Press Agency

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