EgyptAir Flight 804 departed Paris’s Charles de Gaulle airport at 11:09 p.m. Wednesday and was bound for Cairo when it crashed into the sea early Thursday. On Saturday, French investigators confirmed that smoke was detected in the plane in multiple locations before it crashed, AP reported. The messages signaling the aircraft detected smoke aboard the flight were first reported Friday by the industry publication Aviation Herald. An Egyptian dinghy collects wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804. CAIRO—Smoke was detected in multiple places inside an EgyptAir plane minutes before it plummeted into the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people on board, French investigators said Saturday, citing messages from the plane’s automatic detection system.

Source: thestar May 21, 2016 08:11 UTC