President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi also said Egypt was jointly investigating the Thursday crash with the French government.
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Speaking to Bloomberg, he said that Egypt, the Arab world’s most populous nation, is maintaining its forecast that ten million tourists will visit it in 2017, generating United States dollars 12 billion of income.
French authorities confirmed Saturday that smoke detectors went off aboard the flight a few minutes before it crashed but said it was not clear what caused the smoke or fire.
Employees with particular political leanings were fired, crew searches increased and extra in-flight security guards added.
Debris from EgyptAir Flight 804.
This report brings into question the screening process for any airport personnel in Egypt, especially following last years’ downing of a MetroJet which originated out of Egypt and Reuters has reported that an EgyptAir mechanic has been detained in connection with the terrorist act.
The signals did not indicate what caused the smoke or fire, and aviation experts have not ruled out either deliberate sabotage or a technical fault, but they offered early clues as to what unfolded in the moments before the crash.
“We’ve looked at the signals intelligence”. They released photos of the wreckage on Saturday.
EgyptAir’s security procedures last came under scrutiny in March when a passenger on a domestic flight pretended to be wearing an explosive vest and forced the plane to land in Cyprus. The crisis was resolved within hours when the man, later determined to be psychologically troubled, surrendered.
The couple left their young son and two daughters with his mother and spent a month in Paris, where Ashery had surgery and seemed on the path to a full recovery.
During stopovers, the unarmed guards were responsible for searching workers who clean the planes and check the credentials of crew members and employees who board.
An Egyptian submarine is joining the multi-country search for wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea, about 180 miles north of Egypt’s coast. Investigators are eager to locate the devices because they can help determine what caused the Airbus A320 to plummet into the ocean.
Friends and relatives also presented a uniformly untroubled picture of the pilot, Captain Mohamed Shoukair, 36, and his co-pilot, Mohamed Mamdouh Assem, 24. The official was not authorized to discuss the investigation and spoke on condition of anonymity.
The measures may have all amounted to nothing however, with terrorism still considered the most likely reason for Thursday’s crash as the A320 flew from Paris to Cairo. All onboard – 56 passengers and 10 crew – died.
The graffiti about Mr. Sisi occurred several times for about two years after Mr. Morsi, of the Muslim Brotherhood, was removed as president in July 2013. The report added that Brussels, Tunis, Paris and Cairo airports had heightened terror-related checks at the time because of recent attacks in those countries. “It just leads us into an area where smoke is a major contributor to the incident, either by destroying the aircraft’s equipment or suffocating the pilots”, he told The AP. That does not mean the explosion came from the cockpit but indicates the right side of the plane was more badly damaged than the left.
In March 2016, an EgyptAir plane en route from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked by one of its passengers claiming to be wearing a bomb belt, which later was revealed to be fake. It’s not known whether Egypt followed the FAA directive.
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Ezzat Shoukair, a cousin of the captain, said he was distressed by some of the coverage.
