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Egypt Air, Flight MS804, an Airbus A320 - flying from Paris to Cairo crashes into the eastern Mediterranean Sea. All 66 passengers and crew on board died. It took almost a month to find the wreckage. The crash, was originally thought to be a result of a terrorist attack but a year later it was determined that a fire had caused the plane to crash. A 2022 report from the French authorities attributed the cause of the fire to a pilot smoking a cigarette, a practice which wasn't banned at the time, in the proximity of an oxygen line which had its airflow switch improperly left in the “emergency” position when  the oxygen mask was replaced three days before. According to the Airbus manual; under those conditions, “an oxygen leakage could occur.“ More