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Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilot’s cigarette, investigation finds
« on: April 27, 2022, 02:40:34 pm »
Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilot’s cigarette, investigation finds

By Snejana Farberov
April 27, 2022

An EgyptAir flight that crashed en route to Cairo, killing all 66 people on board, was brought down by a pilot who had a cigarette in the cockpit and started a fire, a new report found.

EgyptAir flight MS804 was traveling 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.

France’s Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) has since concluded that 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, among them 12 French nationals, 30 Egyptians, two Iraqis, one Canadian and one British citizen.

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Source:  https://nypost.com/2022/04/27/egyptair-flight-ms804-fatal-crash-caused-by-pilot-mohamed-said-ali-ali-shoukairs-cigarette/
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Re: Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilot’s cigarette, investigation finds
« Reply #1 on: April 29, 2022, 02:59:38 pm »
It's amazing how many deadly airplane crashes are due to just plain stupidity.
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Re: Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilot’s cigarette, investigation finds
« Reply #2 on: April 29, 2022, 03:32:22 pm »

I wonder if he was smoking these.
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Re: Flight that crashed and killed 66 people was caused by pilot’s cigarette, investigation finds
« Reply #3 on: April 29, 2022, 03:35:24 pm »
Quote from: andy58-in-nh on April 29, 2022, 03:32:22 pm

I wonder if he was smoking these.

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