Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi warned the media yesterday against speculating about what brought down EgyptAir flight 804, and said all scenarios are being considered.
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“All scenarios are possible”, Sisi said at the opening of a fertilizer factory in Damietta, in northern Egypt.
“It is very, very important to us to establish the circumstances that led to the crash of that aircraft”, el-Sissi said in comments broadcast live on Egyptian TV, according to The Associated Press.
On Saturday, an Egyptian government-appointed committee tasked with investigating the plane crash said it was “too early to make judgments” regarding the cause of the disaster.
The flight lost contact in the middle of the night in the wider area of the Strabo trench in the so-called Hellenic Arc in the sea south of Greece, where waters are as much as 3,000 meters (9,800 feet) deep. “While on station the first aircraft coordinated its search efforts with an Egyptian navy”.
Sylvain Prevost, who trains Paris airport personnel, said cleaning staff are trained to alert authorities to suspicious items but specialised security personnel are not routinely required to sweep a plane after the cleaning crew leaves.
While flight recorders were created to survive plane crashes, their batteries would run out after one month, leaving the search teams without a guiding signal.
But the new report states Captain Shoukair said he would attempt to extinguish the fire with the manoeuvre, which involves dramatic changes to cabin air pressure and can be risky.
The plane disappeared from radar early Thursday as it flew to Cairo in what should have been about a 3½-hour flight.
But a French television station reported Sunday the pilot of the EgyptAir flight spoke to air traffic control in Egypt for several minutes just before the plane crashed.
Search crews returned to the area where pieces of the wreckage were found to look for more debris and the bodies of the 56 passengers and 10 crew killed in the crash. But authorities said it was not possible to determine what caused the smoke.
While the cause of the crash remains unclear, Egyptian officials have said that they are not ruling out any scenarios in the investigation.
Three days after the EgyptAir flight plunged into the Mediterranean with 66 people on board search teams scoured the sea on Sunday for the bodies of the dead and clues on why it crashed.
He added, “There is no particular theory we can affirm right now”.
In this May 19th image released by the Egyptian Defense Ministry, a ship searchs in the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir flight 804. “This could take a long time”.
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The Daesh group was quick to claim responsibility for that attack, but there has been no such claim linked to the EgyptAir crash.
