Bomb on board or intervention of a kamikaze. These would be the most likely hypotheses to explain what happened yesterday on the EgyptAir MS804 plane, which mysteriously crashed during the night while it was flying between Paris and Cairo, killing 66 people.
The parameters of the last two minutes of the Airbus flight before it sank, as well as the tenor of the last communication between the cockpit and Hellenic Air Traffic Control (“The pilot was in a good mood and greeted in Greek ”) lead one to imagine that a sudden “catastrophic event” has occurred. The hypothesis of a failure or anomaly which the pilots have attempted to remedy with an emergency maneuver would therefore be excluded.
Those two sudden turns that preceded the crash, the first 90 degrees to the left and the second 360 degrees to the right, do not technically represent an emergency descent. Rather, it seems that the Airbus spun on itself, falling into a dive, perhaps after a sudden depressurization or structural failure due to an explosion that the pilots could not have repaired.
The hypothesis is that the explosive could have been brought on board (or in any case assembled on board) by those who embarked in Paris, while it is unlikely that a potential bomb was in the hold. However, there is the possibility that the bomb was left on board the Airbus by one of the passengers who had traveled on that plane on one of the four routes it had covered on Wednesday (Asmara-Cairo; Cairo-Tunis; Tunis-Cairo; Cairo-Paris).
The French Transport Undersecretary reported that Roissy airport procedures require that for aircraft in transit from countries outside the Schengen area (such as Airbus Egyptair) on-board checks (cockpit, passenger cabin, toilet ) are carried out not by the French authorities, but by airline personnel. With tools and methods on which no one is certain. It is therefore plausible that the explosive, on Wednesday, was loaded onto the Airbus in Asmara, Tunis or Cairo.
