The crash of an Egyptian airline plane over the Mediterranean Sea in 2016 appears to have been caused by a fire caused by a cigarette smoked in the cockpit.

The Italian newspaper "Il Corriere della Sera" reported yesterday, referring to a report that French experts submitted to the court in Paris in March. According to the experts, the fire broke out after oxygen from an oxygen mask ignited on a cigarette smoked by the pilot or co-pilot. According to the Italian newspaper, the recordings of the machine's flight recorder confirm the assumption.

Egyptair flight MS804 crashed over the Mediterranean Sea on May 19, 2016 en route from Paris to Cairo. 66 people died. While the Egyptian authorities initially assumed it was an attack, the French investigators doubted this theory from the start.