Investigation authority BEA has dismissed the Egyptian air accident commission’s official explanation – detonation of explosive material behind the cockpit – for the fatal 19 May 2016 accident.

BEA is the counterpart of the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board in aviation accident ... chief of Aviation Week’s ShowNews. French Investigation Bureau BEA Creates Safety Digests ...

French investigators probing ... crew member was smoking. BEA adds that a series of ignition tests “do not suggest” that a lit cigarette contributed to the accident sequence.

The crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 in 2016 was probably caused by a fire in the cockpit, French investigators ... France's civil aviation accident bureau, known as BEA, said in a press release ...