Egypt in the news on 30 December 2019
Still generating coverage in the foreign press: The two bus crashes that took place on Saturday near Port Said and Ain Sohkna, with plenty of stories out in the local Indian and Malaysian media in particular. A total of 28 people were killed in the two crashes, Deutsche Welle reports, including several Indian and Malaysian tourists.
Expect this to shift the conversation today: French investigators have reportedly found EgyptAir guilty of “maintenance and safety lapses” that led to the 2016 crash of a flight en route from Paris to Cairo, confidential documents show, according to the Wall Street Journal. The plane reportedly had “serious mechanical errors” on the five flights prior to the crash, but these errors were allegedly not addressed by maintenance staff. According to the documents, there was an oxygen leak in the plane’s cockpit and a fire “likely disabled the plane.” The journal notes that Egyptian authorities had said the crash was a result of a terrorist act.