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Pilot's cigarette in the cockpit while flying sparked blaze on board EgyptAir jet that plunged into the Med, killing all 66 on board in 2016, report
A report conducted by French aviation experts has concluded that the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 in 2016, which killed all 66 people on board, was likely caused by a fire sparked from a pilot's cigarette. Flight MS804 was bound from Paris's Charles de Gaulle airport to Cairo, but plunged into the sea between Crete and the northern coast of Egypt after disappearing from radars on May 19, 2016. France's Bureau of Enquiry and Analysis for Civil Aviation Safety (BEA) initially… (www.dailymail.co.uk) Plus d'info...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Smoking in the Cockpit... UGH... Can you get much dumber than that!
As you know, it used to be very common, almost the norm to smoke while flying. Years ago I used to work on vacuum driven aircraft gyros and never opened one up that didn't have nicotine buildup as a problem. Pressure and then electrons took over powering gyros and thank God people wised up about cigarettes and aircraft not being a good combination.
I remember those days and I do know exactly what you are talking about. I remember the filters in hte 737's time change and when you pulled them out they were usually black and stunk like Cigarettes!
I took some legs before the crash that same plane, from Cairo>Brussels... I sent after the accident two messages to Egypt Air precisely to mention that I found some cigarette smell. I was . on first rows - because I was flying on Business Class... And I have seen a packet of cigarette between pilotes on the console when I was waiting the door opening (as cockpit door was already open)... Just my witness... Carlos
Humm Egyptian authority's response seems quite similar to a certain 767 crash...
After pissing off Boeing and now French they might need to look a new place to buy planes...
After pissing off Boeing and now French they might need to look a new place to buy planes...
While attending to egypt air aircraft I had no choice but to enter the cockpit to review the log books. With the whole flight crew in cockpit smoking and jabbering in egyptian.
And me.. a non smoker and hater of second hand smoke, able to smell the slightest whiff of cigarette smoke from 50 ft away even before I could see the smoker... OMG I wished my company provided Oxy cyclinders to engineers assigned to egypt air.
The whole cockpit STINKS!
And me.. a non smoker and hater of second hand smoke, able to smell the slightest whiff of cigarette smoke from 50 ft away even before I could see the smoker... OMG I wished my company provided Oxy cyclinders to engineers assigned to egypt air.
The whole cockpit STINKS!