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Tuesday, 16 August 2016

Cover-up fears over flight MS804’s crash

Is there a coverup of the investigations into EgyptAir flight MS804’s crash in the Mediterranean? “The Egyptian civil aviation authority issued 25 bulletins in the first two months after the Airbus A320 crashed, but has said nothing for four weeks,” The Times of London reports (paywall). “This aircraft should never have taken off again from Roissy [Paris] without a repair,” Stéphane Gicquel, the head of the French National Federation of Victims of Attacks and Collective Accidents said, hinting to reports of technical malfunctions found before the plane took off. The Times says that the last report the victims’ families received from EgyptAir was on 25 July and noted that Egypt’s technical investigation committee “has not at this stage indicated when an interim report will be issued.” EgyptAir and the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority did not comment. An ungated version of the article is available via The Australian.

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