'Smoke alarm device EgyptAir shortly before crash '

- Flight data suggest that the smoke alarm has been triggered in the unit of EgyptAir which is paid Thursday in the Mediterranean. This enables CNN based on the flight who got it from an Egyptian source.

There was smoke and heat are detected in a window next to the co-pilot and in the toilet behind the cockpit. A fire at that location could have affected the communication, said David Soucie, aviation expert at CNN.

The information about the smoke was coming from the so-called ACARS system, which sends messages between aircraft and air traffic control on the ground. According to the Aviation Herald, a website specializing in aviation, the smoke alarm would have gone off at least twice, shortly before contact was lost with the unit.
  
    
     
      
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Because the data were sent over a period of one or two minutes, eight Soucie unlikely that an explosive device was the cause of the disaster.,, It may have been a technical fault, short circuit, but a kind of incendiary device is also possible. '' The French and Egyptian authorities consider multiple scenarios, though the latter considered a terrorist act likely than a technical problem.

The Egyptian navy struck Friday nearly 300 kilometers north of Alexandria remains on the Airbus A320, which had 66 people on board. The navy is still looking for the black boxes of the device, which could clarify the cause of the crash.

The unit with flight number MS804 disappeared in the night between Wednesday and Thursday of the radar during a flight from Paris to Cairo.