EgyptAir Crash Not Caused by Explosion: Egypt’s Head of Forensics

A senior Egyptian forensics official said that the condition of the human remains pointed to an explosion.

Wreckage from the Egyptair flight that crashed on 19 May 2016. (Photo: AP)

• Egypt’s head of forensics, Hesham Abdelhamid issued a statement on 24 May denying the initial reports that a mid-air explosion possibly caused the crash of the EgyptAir flight, reports Reuters.
• An earlier quote by an anonymous forensics official claimed that due to the size of the body pieces recovered from the crash site, it was being concluded that a blast had caused the plane to crash.

• All 66 people on board the flight were killed when the Airbus 320 crashed in the Mediterranean sea on 19 May en route from Paris to Cairo.
  

(With agency inputs)