Egypt holds To MS804 Explosion Theory

Egyptian investigators are insisting that EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris crashed after an explosion and not as a result of any malfunction, according to a statement from the Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry. Egypt’s forensic examinations from December reportedly found traces of explosives on some of the victims’ bodies. French investigators countered earlier this month that they had found none. France’s Le Figaro had said Egypt was trying to conceal “the poor maintenance of the national company’s aircrafts” by pegging the incident on a terror attack. Egypt, by contrast, maintains that France does not want to own up to a failure of airport security.