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The flight made an emergency midair U-turn shortly after taking off when the flight crew saw fire in the cockpit and noticed a “burnt electrical smell."
According to a 134-page report by French aviation experts, it has come into light that the 2016 crash of EgyptAir MS804 with 66 people on board was triggered by a fire in the cockpit which was caused by the pilot's cigarette.
>> reporter: it's an eerie feeling sitting in a cockpit virtually similar to the mh 370 missing flight. veteran pilot rob johnson activates the boeing 777 autopilot 20 seconds after takeoff. the autopilot follows waypoints along the flight path. it is land the plane if necessary. less than a hour into its flight mh 370 veered off the planned route. our simulator makes the same turn. nobody knows why one or both pilots decided to change course. or why the plane disappeared from civilian radar. the result of a massive electrical problem or someone switching off communication systems. other theor...
Captain shah for any wrongdoing. as an average student in school he would not have been able to master mind such a plot. nobody knows why the plane lost contact. some theorize there could have been a massive electrical problem, a cockpit fire or a cabin fire turning it into a ghost plane. >> why isn't hasn't shown up yet, that is the true mystery of it. if it had crashed in the way we think it did, to hit the water and break up into pieces there would be pieces somewhere. >> aviation analyst jeff wise carried on his own theory. russian operatives who took the plane. none of these theories can ...
It have to have been done after the sign-off, but we also have to say it is selective fire, it is only shutting off the acars, the transponder, but not the auto pilot. >> mike, you agree with that? >> well, sean, i think it is important to know the limitations of what is going on in the cockpit of a jet, so i'm going to have to punt this one over. >> i think absolutely yes, you have the transponder in the acars units going into it. you have all sorts of feeds, what are the engines doing, the cabin pressure? you have all of these speeds going into the cockpit and so there is a high chance that ...