Flight data suggested there were smoke alerts aboard EgyptAir Flight 804 minutes before it crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early on Thursday, May 19, CNN reported on Friday.
However, a U.S. official characterized the report as an unconfirmed rumor.
CNN said it obtained the data through a screen grab from an Egyptian source, and said the data came from an automatic system aboard the plane called the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System (ACARS).
ACARS routinely downloads flight data to the airline operating the aircraft
The plane was carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew.
It was said to have been travelling at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280 metres), then disappeared about 80 miles (130 km) before it was due to enter Egyptian airspace.
Egyptians found body part, seat in jet search
Egyptian authorities found luggage, a seat and a body part during the search for an EgyptAir jet which plunged into the Mediterranean, Greece's defence minister said on Friday.
"A
short while ago we were briefed by the Egyptian authorities ... on the
discovery of a body part, a seat and baggage just south of where the
aircraft signal was lost," Defence Minister Panos Kammenos told reporters in Athens.
The flight with 66 people on board vanished minutes after leaving Greek for Egyptian airspace on Thursday morning.
Kammenos
said Greece could not speculate on the reasons the aircraft crashed. He
reiterated that Greek radars picked up sharp swings in its trajectory
as it plunged from a cruising altitude to 15,000 feet, then vanishing
from radars
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