A new report on the EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo six years ago, killing all 66 people on board, has concluded that it was brought down by a pilot who had a cigarette in the cockpit which started a fire.
EgyptAir flight MS804 was travelling on May 19, 2016 from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport when it fell out of the sky between the Greek island of Crete and northern Egypt.
According to the New York Post, France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety says pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair's mid-air smoke break led to a fire onboard the Airbus A320 jet when his cigarette ignited oxygen leaking from an oxygen mask in the cockpit.
The air disaster resulted in the deaths of 56 passengers and 10 crew members.
Egyptian authorities initially said the plane crash was the result of a terrorist attack, claiming that traces of explosives had been found on the bodies of the victims, but those allegations were widely discredited.
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