Report: Human Remains on EgyptAir Flight Suggest Explosion

CAIRO (WJZ/AP/CBS News) -- Human remains from EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Alexandria, Egypt, which disappeared from radar and crashed in the Mediterranean last week, suggest that there was an explosion inside the craft, an Egyptian forensic official told The Associated Press Tuesday.

The AP said the official was a member of the Egyptian investigation team who had examined recovered remains at a morgue. The claim was later rejected by outside experts and Egypt's government, according to CBS News.

"There isn't even a whole body part, like an arm or a head," said the official who spoke to AP on condition of anonymity. "The logical explanation is that it was an explosion."

CBS News transportation safety analyst and former chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board Mark Rosenker urges caution over drawing any conclusions based solely on the size of the remains recovered thus far.

"We just don't know," Rosenker said. "Until we get people to go on the record with their names we don't know what is happening."

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