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Forty Egyptians and 15 French nationals were aboard an Airbus A320 from EgyptAir when it crashed into the Mediterranean on May 19, 2016, leaving no survivors. By PASCAL PAVANI (AFP / File)
On Wednesday, Egypt denied that technical failures caused the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 as it was traveling to Cairo from Peer three years ago, killing 66 people on board.
Forty Egyptians and 15 French nationals were on board the Airbus A320 when it crashed into the Mediterranean on May 19, 2016, leaving no survivors.
"The claims of some foreign newspapers were incorrect," said the Egyptian Ministry of Civil Aviation, citing an article in a French newspaper on "Egyptair's shortcomings … in the technical management" of the l 39; ;plane.
He added that the maintenance and upkeep of EgyptAir aircraft were carried out "in accordance with international standards and approved by international civil aviation organizations".
The Egyptian Minister of Aviation had initially stated that a terrorist attack was more likely to bring down the plane.
The French air safety agency said that the aircraft had transmitted automated messages indicating the presence of smoke in the cabin and a failure of the flight control unit a few minutes before the loss of contact.
"The system for monitoring technical breakdowns (…) has not recorded any technical problems during the last flights of the plane before the accident," said Wednesday the Egyptian Ministry.
This "completely cancels" the French report published last week, he added.
Three Paris judges charged with the investigation ordered two investigators to reconstruct the sequence of events leading to the crash, with the results of the first handover to the magistrates last June.
In the 76-page document, reported for the first time by the newspaper Le Parisien on April 2, the two experts complain about the "considerable lack of rigor of EgyptAir's crew and technical services" in handling documents aircraft techniques.
But they did not stop before drawing a conclusion on the cause of the accident, adding that one of the flaws "could have been the forerunner of a major power failure".
In December 2016, Cairo officials said traces of explosives were found on the remains of some victims, but the French authorities were skeptical, with no organization claiming the attack.
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