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France is dispatching a naval vessel, equipped with sonar, to the site to try and locate the black box data recorders. An aviation expert told DW that equipment registered fires on board prior to the crash.
Smoke and fire broke out on board EgyptAir flight MS804 minutes before the plane plunged off radar screens during the early hours of Thursday morning.
"There was a fire on board," aviation expert Tim van Beveren told DW. "The system sent very clear messages. There was a lavatory smoke detected. A minute later, avionics compartment smoke detected...Two minutes later, the flight control units are failing."
Expert: Fire aboard fatal EgyptAir flight
Van Beveren said he expected Egyptian authorities to corrobarte this information shortly.
Meanwhile, at the site of the crash, human remains have been identified, about 180 miles (290 km) north of Alexandria. The discovery comes roughly 36 hours after the A320 flying from Paris to Cairo abruptly disappeared from radar.
Confirmation of the crash site has prompted the French Navy to dispatch a patrol boat from its its Mediterranean home port at Toulon. The vessel will assist in the search for more debris but is especially eager to find the plane's so-called "black boxes" - the flight and data recorders that could be key to determining whether the plane went down because of mechanical failure, accident, or attack.
The 260-foot (80-meter) ship is equipped with sonar that can identify the sound of the underwater location beacons fitted to the crashed plane's cockpit voice and flight data recorders.
The French Navy says it will take two or three days for the ship and its 90 crew members to reach the search area, which is approximately halfway between the Egyptian coast and the Greek island of Crete. Finding the flight recorders will also likely take some time as the water is 8,000 to 10,000 feet deep where the jet crashed during the early hours of Thursday. There were 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptians, 15 French and people from more than 10 other countries.
Three French investigators and a technical expert from Airbus arrived in Cairo on Friday morning to help investigate the fate of the missing plane. Victims of terror Both countries have been victimized by terror attacks in the past year.
Without the flight recorders no one can say definitively what caused the crash, but given the good weather conditions and two experienced pilots, some have speculated terrorism is the more likely cause.
If the plane was brought down by a bomb that could suggest a security lapse at Charles De Gaulle Airport (CDG), six months after November's Paris attacks killed 130 people.
Given the heightened concerns France's junior minister for transport, Alain Vidalies, defended security at CDG, saying staff security badges are revoked if there is the slightest doubt.
Airport ground staff who worked on the plane or dealt with goods going into its hold include baggage handlers, maintenance workers, gate agents, security guards, airline boarding employees and others. They all carry "red badges" that give them access to restricted areas of the airport.
After last year's attacks in Paris, dozens of red badges were withdrawn "for the phenomenon of radicalization."
From BBC:
EgyptAir: 'Smoke detected' inside cabin before crash
However, there has been no official confirmation of the data.
Flight MS804 was en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.
The Aviation Herald said it had received flight data filed through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS) from three independent channels.
It said the system showed that at 02:26 local time on Thursday (00:26 GMT) smoke was detected in the Airbus A320 toilet.
A minute later - at 00:27 GMT - there was an avionics smoke alert.
The last ACARS message was at 00:29 GMT, the air industry website said, and the contact with the plane was lost four minutes later at 02;33 local time.
ACARS is used to routinely download flight data to the airline operating the aircraft.
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Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International Magazine, told the BBC that technical failure could not be ruled out.
"There was smoke reported in the aircraft lavatory, then smoke in the avionics bay, and over a period of three minutes the aircraft's systems shut down, so you know, that's starting to indicate that it probably wasn't a hijack, it probably wasn't a struggle in the cockpit, it's more likely a fire on board.
"Now whether that was a technical fire, a short circuit, or whether it was because a bomb went off on board, we don't know," he added.
Greece earlier said that radar showed the Airbus A320 had made two sharp turns and dropped more than 25,000ft (7,620m) before plunging into the sea.
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Media captionWhat happened to flight MS804? Richard Westcott examines the evidence so far
Debris and body parts were found on Friday by teams searching for the wreckage of the Airbus320, Greek and Egyptian officials said.
Items including seats and luggage have also been retrieved by Egyptian search crews.
The debris was discovered about 290km (180 miles) north of Alexandria, the Egyptian military said.
European Space Agency satellitesspotted an oil slickin the area where the flight had vanished - but the organisation said there was no guarantee it was from the plane.
The search is now focused on finding the plane's flight recorders, the Associated Press news agency reports.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has expressed his "utmost sadness and regret" at the crash.
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