PARIS, May 26 (Xinhua) -- French judges who are investigating into last year's EgyptAir crash, named new experts, including an engineer specializing in batteries to determine whether an overheated iPhone battery had in the cockpit had sparked a fire that caused the crash, a local newspaper reported on Friday.
As part of judicial and civil inquiries, French judges named a research engineer at French National Center for Scientific Research, an expert in batteries and a PHD in physics from defense ministry given "the exceptional nature" and "the complexity and technicality of the mission", the daily Le Parisien reported.
The experts should determine "with accuracy" whether co-pilot's iPad mini 4 or iPhone 6s may be linked to the crash of EgyptAir flight by causing thermal leakage to see if smart phones could catch fire spontaneously and, if so, under what conditions and at what speed, according to the report which cited magistrates document.
The experts' report would be submitted to the judges by Sept. 30, it added.
EgyptAir flight MS804, an Airbus A320, went missing from radar screens on May 19 en route from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board, including 30 Egyptians and 15 French.
The data from the flight's black box suggests that the cause of the incident is a fire originated on the co-pilot's side of the plane's cockpit.
