EgyptAir Plane Disappears Over Mediterranean, Airline Says

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CAIRO — An EgyptAir passenger jet traveling to Cairo from Paris with 66 people on board disappeared over the Mediterranean early Thursday, the airline said on its Twitter account.

 

Flight 804, an Airbus A320 jet, lost contact with radar systems over Greece at 2.45 a.m. Cairo time, 80 miles before it was scheduled to enter Egyptian airspace, EgyptAir said. It had taken off from Paris three hours and 40 minutes earlier.

 

The airline said the plane had been traveling at an altitude of 37,000 feet and was carrying 56 passengers, including three children. In addition, according to the airline, three EgyptAir security personnel and seven crew members were also on board. EgyptAir added that it had alerted search and rescue teams and “all competent authorities,” and would update with further information as it became available.

 

In another post, EgyptAir said the plane had been 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace when it disappeared.

 

Reuters, quoting the Egyptian state newspaper Ahram, said the crew had made no distress call, and that the last contact was 10 minutes before plane vanished.

 

Ehab Mohy el-Deen, the head of Egypt’s air navigation authority, said that Greek air traffic controllers notified their Egyptian counterparts that they had lost contact with the plane. “They did not radio for help or lose altitude. They just vanished,” he said.

 

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/world/middleeast/egyptair-plane-disappears-over-mediterranean-airline-says.html?smid=fb-nytimes&smtyp=cur&_r=0

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Egyptian officials believe missing EgyptAir plane crashed into sea

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CAIRO, May 19 (Reuters) - An EgyptAir plane missing with 66 people on board probably crashed into the sea, officials from the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation said on Thursday.

 

The Airbus A320 aircraft flying from Paris to Cairo went missing on Thursday, disappearing from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, EgyptAir said earlier.

 

Egypt's state newspaper Ahram reported that there had been no distress call from the plane and that the last contact with the pilot was about 10 minutes before the aircraft disappeared.

 

(Reporting by Lin Noueihed; Writing by Lincoln Feast; Editing by Paul Tait)

 

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