The crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 remains surrounded with mystery. Forensic official have suggested that the human remains recovered from the crash site suggests that an explosion might have brought the plane down.

A senior Egyptian forensics official said that the human remains brought to them were very tiny and had burn marks. A U.S. officials also said in a statement that the evidence they have gathered point to terrorism.

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The Egyptian official pointed out that he personally examined the remains from the plane's 66 passengers and crew at a morgue in Cairo. All the 80 pieces brought to them are reportedly not even a whole body part like that of an arm or a head. He added that one part of the pieces brought to them had signs of burns so it is possible that the part belonged to a passenger sitting right next to the explosion.

Although explosion and terrorism is being blamed in the EgyptAir flight, no terrorist group has claimed responsibility for the incident. Families of the victims arrived at the morgue in Cairo where the human remains are being analyzed to give DNA samples to help identify the remains.

On Tuesday, the effort to find the plane's cockpit voice and data recorder resumed. Ships and planes fro Britain, Cyprus, France, Greece, and the U.S. were deployed to take part in the hunt. The search area is between the Egyptian city of Alexandria and the Greek island of Crete.

Ehab Azmy, the head of Egypt's state-run provider of air navigation services National Air Navigation Services Company, said earlier this week that the plane did not swerve or lose altitude before it disappeared from the radar. He also said that the plane was flying at its normal altitude of 37,000 feet minutes before it went missing.

"There was no turning to the right or left, and it was fine when it entered Egypt's FIR (flight information region), which took nearly a minute or two before it disappeared," Azmy said.

However, Greece's Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said that the plane swerved and dropped to 10,000 feet before it fell off the radar. French aviation officials, on the other hand, revealed that an automated system aboard the plane sent messages that there was smoke in the aircraft before it crashed into the sea last Thursday on its way from Paris to Cairo.

Before the plane took off on May 18, one of the pilots signed a technical log saying that all was in normal condition and there were no technical problems. 

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