Egyptian forensics officials disagree on evidence of an explosion on EgyptAir flight

On Tuesday, a senior Egyptian forensics official said that human remains salvaged from the wreckage of EgyptAir Flight 804 suggest there was an explosion on board before the plane went down in the Mediterranean last week. So far, 80 remnants of the 66 people aboard the flight have been brought to the Cairo morgue, and "there isn't even a whole body part, like an arm or a head," the unidentified official told The Associated Press. "The logical explanation is that it was an explosion."

UPDATE: The head of Egypt's Forensics Authority, Hesham Abdelhamid, denied the report, telling state news agency MENA: "Everything published about this matter is completely false, and mere assumptions that did not come from the Forensics Authority."

The plane's fuselage and black boxes have not yet been recovered. But the head of Egypt's National Air Navigation Services Co., Mohi El-Din Azmi, told Egyptian state TV on Sunday that, contrary to assertions by the Greek defense minster, the plane did not swerve before disappearing from radar about a minute after entering Egyptian air space.

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