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EgyptAir said Monday advance compensation payments of $25,000 will be offered to families of the 66 people killed when one of its planes crashed into the Mediterranean last month.

Egypt hired a private firm Friday to help in the hunt for the black boxes from the EgyptAir plane that crashed last week en route from Paris to Cairo, authorities said.

Deep-water search operations to locate the wreckage and black boxes of the EgyptAir MS804 will start in the coming days, France's BEA air safety agency said.

A fifth of the Egyptians on EgyptAir Flight MS804 were from the northern village of Mit Badr Halawa.

Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi said on Sunday no theory was being favoured on why EgyptAir MS804 plunged into the Mediterranean.

Egyptian armed forces issued several photos of the fatal EgyptAir Flight MS804 fragments and debris found during the search and rescue operation.

No theory on the cause of the EgyptAir crash has been ruled out, after revelations of smoke in the cabin minutes before the disaster.

EgyptAir flight MS804 sent automated messages signalling smoke onboard before plunging into the Mediterranean, the French aviation safety agency said.

Without the bulk of the fuselage and flight recorder, the tragedy has offered few tangible clues but plenty of speculation that terrorists may have targeted EgyptAir Flight 804.

A Greek aviation source says Flight MS804 has crashed into the Mediterranean between the Greek islands and the Egyptian coast.

France's Prime Minister Manuel Valls said Thursday "no theory can be ruled out" in the missing EgyptAir flight which disappeared en route to Cairo from Paris.

EgyptAir said flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo had disappeared from radar.