Overview
- The Paris prosecutor asked for a general dismissal on April 7, saying the criminal inquiry found no provable faults beyond the deceased crew.
- The filing attributes the 2016 loss of MS804 to a cockpit fire caused by an oxygen leak from the pilot’s mask stowage meeting an unknown heat source.
- Prosecutors say the leak followed the co-pilot’s inadvertent push of an emergency oxygen button and note background music and lax cockpit conduct on the voice recordings.
- Families call the request a botched outcome and seek more probes and the indictment of EgyptAir, pressing questions on recent maintenance, cockpit smoking and access, and nonstop music.
- The BEA’s 2023 work did not rule out a component failure, and French investigators earlier rejected Egypt’s 2016 claim of explosive traces, underscoring a decade of clashing findings and strained cooperation.