"Shredded" human remains indicate that Egypt Air flight crashed due to explosion

Human remains examined at a Cairo morgue indicate an explosion plunged EgyptAir Flight 804 into the Mediterranean Sea, according to Egyptian forensic officials.

Investigators sifting through 80 pieces found floating in the crash site are small, suggesting a blast tore through the doomed flight transporting 66 passengers from Paris to Cairo early Thursday.

The official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not allowed to release information concerning the investigation, said the forensics team has to deal with very small body parts.

"There isn't even a whole body part, like an arm or a head," the official said according to AP.

"The logical explanation is that it was an explosion," he added, while also mentioning that the experts had so far been given around 80 small body parts to investigate.


However, a forensics official told Reuters that no traces of explosives have been found yet.

The Airbus A320 crashed early on Thursday morning around 170km from the Egyptian coast in the Mediterranean Sea, having taken off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris.

The plane was carrying 66 people, which comprised 56 passengers and 10 crew members. Of the passengers, 30 were Egyptian, 15 French and two Iraqi, with one from each of Algeria, Belgium, Britain, Canada, Chad, Kuwait, Portugal, Saudi Arabia and Sudan.

Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi said that authorities are working hard to find the plane’s black boxes. Cairo deployed a submarine over the weekend to search for wreckage from the plane. He added that at this stage of the investigation “all scenarios” of plane crash “are possible.”