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In the very early hours of May 19th, 2016, an Airbus A320 operated by the Egyptian National Air Carrier, Egyptair, seemingly dissapeared over the Mediterannean Sea. The lives of 66 people vanishing alongside the plane. It’s a plane accident which has been shrouded in a veil of mystery for some time with limited information released to the public in the years since. A trend that has persisted even to this day. However, in recent months new information began to surface and we now know why this plane crashed, and where the origin of the disaster started. This is the story of Egyptair Flight 804.
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https://www.corriere.it/cronache/22_aprile_26/volo-egyptair-incendio-piloti-fumo-fb725f4c-c4d3-11ec-8db2-dfe15c68e9dd.shtml
https://www.smartcockpit.com/docs/A320-Oxygen.pdf
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I was kind of aware of this accident because of being a nervous flyer. I went to South Africa in April and we flew with egypt air. Being as paranoid as I am, I checked out their safety record and turned this up. It made me nervous but at the time it was indicated as an onboard fire which I reasoned could happen to any plane and wasn’t the airline’s fault. Hearing the full story baffles me that the pilots were allowed to smoke. That was a disaster waiting to happen and I’m glad that it was banned before I flew with them.
im utterly shocked that pilots were allowed to smoke, i watch a lot of air crash stuff and had no idea.
This is the accident I have had minimum information but thank you for this video
Oh the good old days when we could smoke on planes and other people minded their own business.
Bit flimsy and circumstantial given the fact that pax planes flew since the 1920s with smoking allowed, in fact I can think of none that were off the top of my head and I spent some years working in Aviation Re-Insurance reading hundreds of accident reports and claims files. It would be convenient if the modern taboos against smokers could be re-enforced by the blaming bringing down of an airliner on the pilot smoking in the cockpit, but it is very unlikely. This one sounds to me similar to the Swissair crash off Halifax in 1998 or as you said the Valuejet in Florida and the previous "emergency landings" are more suspicious than an ash tray in the cockpit.
It is beyond belief that pilots would smoke at all, especially as the medical standards for retaining their licenses are so strict. Smoking is a bad idea for anybody but especially people who need to maintain high standards of medical fitness.
So, a single fact has been proven: Smoking Kills!
Get this in your head, all you still-smoking-and-think-you're-invincible-and-still-look-so-cool chimney heads and ash trays!
SHOCKING
Smoking kills.
As someone who grew up in egypt, a pilot lighting up is the most egyptian way to crash a plane. "Ya ahmed het alwala3aa" and then an explosion hahahah. Its tragic but still
I flew egyptair in 2015. There was a cigarettes smell near the cokpit so i asked if it was allowed to smoke despite the no smoking warnings. They probablemento meant not to wear smokings in the aircraft
I know, this is a stupid remark but on the other hand how do you call smoking in a cokpit with an oxygene leak?
So many decent airlines fail and yet, Egypt air.
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Aircraft terrorism is very frightening.
Smoking should be banned globally.
In funny countries all kinds of things are allowed even to airplanes.!
I've gotta say, you have the best background music. Really sets the mood.
Thank you so much for providing excellent captions; it is much appreciated!! Good job choosing to cover this interesting little-known event and well explained. Excellent graphics, wonderful narrative voice & style. Succinct, without over dramatization or annoying loud music. I give it an A+ and you've earned another subscriber!
My jaw dropped to the floor when she said there was an ashtray in the cockpit
The pilots wouldn't have had a chance to save the plane. The fire started in the cockpit. From a cigarette or lighter one of them was holding. I can't believe they still allowed smoking in the cockpits at the time.
I was in Elementary school when we had a Navy Pilot talk about this accident and how she was doing her part to find the plane.
I remember telling her the details of this plane for some reason lol.
Yet another reason to detest smoking.
And Egyptair still want to be taken seriously? First they tried to cover up the fact that a butthurt pilot who couldn't keep his dick in his pants downed Flight 990, and now we find out they allowed pilots to SMOKE in the cockpit?
The ValueJet incident wasn't "oxygen containers" , it was chemical oxygen generators, UN 3356, completely unrelated incident
US and NATO war games in the Mediterranean have something to do with certain accidents ie Itavia flight!
Just unfortunate! However, the Egyptian aviation authorities have never been forthcoming about past accidents involving their planes. A questionable safety record, to say the absolute least…
Smoking is bad for you