EgyptAir Crash: Investigator Sees Evidence Of Explosion; Egypt Denies Report

A forensic official said Tuesday that the remains of people on board the EgyptAir flight that crashed last week indicated an explosion on board the plane, the Associated Press reported. Egyptian officials vehemently denied any such conclusion has been made by the government's forensic efforts.

The report from the AP was based on an interview with only a single, unnamed person, identified as a "senior Egyptian forensics official" who had examined human remains from the crash.

"The logical explanation is that an explosion brought it down," the official, who was not named, told the AP. He said one indication of an explosion was that the human remains recovered so far have been very small.

The claims were almost immediately repudiated by the head of Egypt's forensics authority, Hesham Abdelhamid.

“Everything published about this matter is completely false and mere assumptions that did not come from the forensics authority,” Abdelhamid said, according to USA Today.

The flight from Paris to Cairo was carrying 66 people when it disappeared from radar on May 19. Debris and remains from the flight have been found off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt, in the Mediterranean Sea.

Teams are still searching for remaining debris, including the plane's black box and other electronic equipment that could provide clues about the plane's crash.

Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister Sharif Fathy on the day of the crash did not rule out the possibility of a terrorist attack.