Crash of EgyptAir 804: what we know

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EgyptAir flight 804This image taken from video posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows personal belongings and other wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)

This weekend, new images and audio from the Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight that crashed in the Mediterranean became available. Debris was located about 290-kilometers north of Alexandria.
We now know the plane sent automated messages, indicating smoke was detected just minutes before it went down.

For the latest on the investigation into the crash of Flight 804, CCTV’s Kate Parkinson reported from Paris.


Seth Kaplan on the EgyptAir crash

To discuss the latest developments about EgyptAir 804, we were joined by aviation expert Seth Kaplan, a managing partner at Airline Weekly.