iPhone and perfume bottles caused EgyptAir MS804 cockpit fire, say French investigators

Did an iPhone bring down MS804? The French investigation into the crash of EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo are pointing to an iPhone 6S, an iPad mini 4, and several bottles of perfume reportedly belonging to the co-pilot as potential culprits behind a fire in the cockpit that brought down the plane last May, according to French newspaper Le Parisien. French investigators are suggesting that overheating the devices’ batteries overheated after being left on the cockpit’s dashboard, resulting in the outbreak of a fire. French investigators to downplay odds that the plane was brought down by an act of terror, with all of the implications that would have for airport security at Charles de Gaulle. The Daily Mail has coverage of the story in English.