Human remains retrieved from the EgyptAir 804 crash site point to an explosion on board, an Egyptian forensic official said today.
The official is part of the investigation team that has personally examined the body parts taken to a Cairo morgue.
He said all 80 pieces brought to the capital so far were small and that ‘there isn’t even a whole body part, like an arm or a head.’
The official, who declined to be named, added that ‘the logical explanation is that it was an explosion’ that may have brought down the jet in the Mediterranean.
The revelation came after the head of Egypt‘s state-run provider of air navigation services said the doomed jet did not swerve or lose altitude before it disappeared off radar
Five days after the air disaster, questions remain over what happened to the jet before it disappeared off radar at around 2.45am local time on Thursday. {loadposition myposition}
Egyptian authorities said they believe terrorism is a more likely explanation than equipment failure.
Some aviation experts have also said the erratic flight reported by the Greek defence minister suggests a bomb blast or a struggle in the cockpit.
But so far no hard evidence has emerged.
A 2013 report by the Egyptian ministry of civil aviation records that the same Airbus 320 made an emergency landing in Cairo that year, shortly after taking off on its way to Istanbul, when one of the engines ‘overheated’.
Aviation experts have said that overheating is uncommon yet is highly unlikely to cause a crash.
Egypt, which is sending a submarine to search for the flight recorders, also refuted earlier reports alleging that search crews had found the plane’s black boxes which could offer vital clues to what happened in the final minutes of the flight.
Dailymail
