(160519)-- PARIS, May 19, 2016 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on May 19, 2016 shows an airplane of EgyptAir taking off at the Charles de Gaulle Airport, in Paris, France. Egypt's Foreign Ministry confirmed to Egyptian Civil Aviation Ministry that wreckages of the missing airplane were found near the Greek Island of Karpathos, EgyptAir said on Thursday. Earlier in the day, EgyptAir said the missing plane, an Airbus A320, disappeared from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo Thursday at 2:45 am Cairo local time (0045 GMT), with 66 people aboard. (Xinhua/Pierre Andrieu)
Cairo, May 24 (IANS) The human remains retrieved from the wreckage of the crashed EgyptAir plane suggest there was an explosion aboard before it crashed in the Mediterranean Sea, sources from Egyptian Forensic Authority said on Tuesday.
The examination of the small size of body parts recovered from the sea found they are in the same condition after falling from the plane, and have not been preyed by sharks, Xinhua cited the sources as saying.
The final report of the forensic authority will unveil whether the explosion was caused by a bomb or other reasons.
Early on Thursday, EgyptAir's Airbus A320 disappeared from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people aboard.
The Egyptian armed forces on Friday found parts of debris from the crashed plane 290 km north of the coastal city of Alexandria.
On Sunday, President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi ordered a robot submarine from the Oil Ministry to search for the plane's two black boxes, which may be 3,000 metres deep.
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