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.
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The initial investigation report will be released in a month, Egyptian state-run Al-Ahram newspaper reported, citing investigation head Ayman el-Mokadem.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has urged the media not to speculate about the cause of an EgyptAir plane crash which killed all 66 people on board, saying all scenarios were still being considered.
An global flotilla of search ships, aided by surveillance planes, was scouring a section of sea 180 miles north of the port city of Alexandria, and retrieved some wreckage, belongings and human remains over the weekend. Some debris has been recovered, but the search for the aircraft and its black box recorders continues.
Flight 804 wreckage included luggage, seats and body parts, found about 180 miles off Alexandria, Egypt. “So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario”.
He said the messages “generally mean the start of a fire” adding, “we are drawing no conclusions from this”.
This still image taken from video posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows personal belongings and other wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804.
“Finding the plane is of course the priority, along with finding the black boxes to analyse them, which will allow us to answer legitimate questions”, he said, referring to the voice and flight data recorders.
The airliner vanished early Thursday shortly after leaving Greek airspace en route from Paris to Cairo.
Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi said the possibility of a terror attack as the cause of the crash is “higher than that of a technical error”.
The series of messages, sent over a period of three minutes, also relayed window sensor indications and problems with the autopilot and flight control system.
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Egypt’s military said it has found debris from the plane along with some human remains and passengers’ belongings.
