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Pilots march in honor of the 66 victims of Egyptair 804 in 2016.
Pilots march in honor of the 66 victims of Egyptair 804 in 2016.KHALED DESOUKI/AFP via Getty Images
  • 66 people were killed in a crash of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo.

  • The crash was caused by a fire in the cockpit, according to the Italian newspaper.

  • The report said the fire started after the pilot lit a cigarette.

A recent investigation found that a 2016 EgyptAir plane crash that killed 66 people was caused by the pilot smoking in the cockpit.

A 134-page document submitted to the Court of Appeals in Paris last month said investigators determined that the burning cigarette combined with escaping oxygen from the co-pilot's mask and caused a fire on board Flight 804.

According to the report, the co-pilot's oxygen mask had been changed three days prior to the crash, and a fire was triggered after a lit cigarette leaked oxygen.

At the time of the crash, smoking was allowed in the cockpit.

On May 19, 2016 all 66 people on EgyptAir 804 were killed when the plane crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.

The plane went down. The plane should never have taken off in Paris, according to a report commissioned by France's justice ministry.

The French air accident investigation agency said that a cockpit fire likely caused the crash, while Egyptian authorities initially claimed it was a terrorist bombing.

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