2016 egyptair crash: fire was caused by pilot's cigarette, finds probe
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The EgyptAir MS804 with 66 people on board had gone missing on 19 May 2016, whereafter the then French President Francois Hollande confirmed that the missing flight crashed. There were
numerous speculations and theories as to what went wrong, including that the plane had crashed into sea or that the crash was a terrorist attack. However, it was established that smoke was
detected before the flight crashed. The passenger belongings and debris of Flight MS804 were found later, 290 km north of the coastal city of Alexandria, Egypt. _(With inputs from NDTV.)_