Explosives found on EgyptAir remains
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TRACES of explosives have been found on victims’ remains from an EgyptAir plane that crashed into the Mediterranean in May killing all 66 people on board, Egypt’s civil aviation ministry said yesterday.
An official investigative committee which made the discovery has referred the case to Egypt’s state prosecution, it added.
Under Egyptian law, the prosecution takes over “if it becomes clear to the investigative committee that there is criminal suspicion behind the accident,” the ministry said.
EgyptAir MS804 was on its way from Paris to Cairo when it disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean.
Investigators determined that a fire broke out in or near the cockpit of the Airbus A320 before it crashed between Crete and the coast of northern Egypt.
France’s air safety agency BEA and plane manufacturer Airbus both declined to comment on yesterday’s announcement, which comes while Cairo is still investigating the October 2015 crash of a Russian passenger plane in Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula.
The Islamic State group claimed responsibility for bombing the Airbus A321 Russian plane that crashed after takeoff from a Sinai resort headed for St Petersburg, killing 224 passengers and crew. There has been no such claim linked to the EgyptAir crash.
Among the 66 people on board the plane were 40 Egyptians, including the 10-member crew, and 15 French nationals.
Egypt’s aviation minister, Sherif Fathy, has said a terrorist attack was the most likely cause of the crash.
The chances of an attack were “higher than the possibility of a technical (failure)” for the downing of the plane, Fathy said in May following the incident.
Aviation experts have said there is little chance a mechanical fault was responsible. The plane entered service in 2003, relatively new for an aircraft that tends to operate for 30 to 40 years.
If a bombing is established, investigators will have to determine if a device could have been smuggled on a flight from France’s busiest airport, Paris Charles de Gaulle.
There is also the possibility a device could have been planted prior to the plane’s arrival in France.
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