The spokesman of Egypt’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, Ahmed Abu Zeid, slammed CNN’s coverage of EgyptAir flight MS804’s crash. In a message on Twitter, the spokesman said that CNN’s theories that the airplane crashed as a result of pilot suicide were disrespectful. “It’s disrespectful that @CNN insinuates pilot suicide in #EgyptairMS804 tragedy while families are mourning,” read the tweet which was retweeted hundreds of times. It’s disrespectful that @CNN insinuates pilot suicide in #EgyptairMS804 tragedy while families are mourning. — Egypt MFA Spokesman (@MfaEgypt) May 20, 2016 Since the spokesman’s statement, Egyptian social media users openly criticized CNN and other news outlets for the ‘insensitive’ theories. Regarding #Egypt ‘s foreign ministry spokesman criticising @CNN , this was reported by LA Times quoting US invest pic.twitter.com/poxhgRDMWx — Menna منّة (@TheMiinz) May 20, 2016 On Twitter and Facebook, one screenshot of an article by the Los Angeles Times is being widely circulated. The article states that among the possible theories is that a “pilot may have tried to commit suicide by intentionally crashing the plane, the cause of several crashes in the past.” Shame on @CNN for insinuating pilot suicide in #EgyptAir…
