An EgyptAir Airbus A320 with 66 people on board has disappear from radar above Egyptian airspace , somewhere over the eastern Mediterranean .
The airline says that flight MS804 leave Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris on Wednesday at 23:09 local time and was scheduled to arrive in Cairo at around 03:00 local meter . radiolocation contact lens was lost with the airplane at 2:30 Cairo time , when it was flying at 37,000 ft .
TheBBC claimsthatthis Arabic tweetfrom the airline articulate that a distress signal was post by the aircraft . The Guardian points out , though , that the signaling was received at 04:26 local clip — around two hours after radar contact was lost with the aircraft . It ’s think that the signal could have grow from an emergency locater lighthouse .
Aboard the airplane were 56 passengers , seven gang member and three surety personnel . It ’s think that passenger onboard were from Egypt , France , UK , Iraq , Canada , Belgium , Kuwait , Saudi Arabia , Algeria , Sudan , Chad and Portugal . It seems no US citizens were aboard the flight .
lookup and rescue teams — made up of Egyptian navy , air force and coastguard , as well as team from Greece — have been deployed to the area where radar contact was lost .
In March of this class , Seifedeen Mustafaused a false dud to hijack an EgyptAir flight of steps .
It ’s not yet clear what has hap to flight MS804 . However , AFP ’s Jean - Marc Mojon cites a “ Grecian air travel source ” who says that the airplanecrashed 130 nautical mile off the Hellenic island of Karpathos .
Update 5:20am : Speaking to Reuters , an anonymous senior aviation root has explain that :
“ The theory that the plane dash and diminish is now reassert after the preliminary search and after it did not arrive at any of the nearby aerodrome .
“ All suit for the disaster are open , whether it is a major technical error or a terrorist activeness or any other circumstance . This will be ascertain when we scrutinise the sheet ’s wreckage and transcribe its black boxes . ”
Update 7:26am : Gallic President Francois Hollande hasannouncedat a press conference that the aircraft definitely crashed , though the cause is unidentified . He say :
“ Unfortunately the information we have … confirms to us that the plane hail down and is lose … No hypothesis can be decree out , nor can any be prefer over another . ”
Update 7:43am : The Guardian reportsthat Grecian defense sources tell it that the aircraft was seen to carry erratically during a two minute time period , between 03:27 to 03:29 local time :
It was in this two minute period when the plane made a 90 grade swerve impart and dropped from 37,000 foot to 15,000 metrical foot before swerving 60 degrees right and vanish at 10,000 feet ten to 15 mile inside Egyptian air infinite .
[ BBC ]
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