EgyptAir flight 804 disappears en route from Paris to Cairo with over 60 on board

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EgyptAir flight 804 disappears en route from Paris to Cairo with over 60 on board

19 May, 2016

An EgyptAir flight carrying at least 59 passengers and 10 crew members went off the radar after departing from Paris and heading to Cairo, the airline said in a brief statement.

“An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight No. MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar,” the airline said on its Twitter.

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An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

EGYPTAIR media centre will update as more information becomes available.
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

News is reporting it disappeared from radar at 37,000 ft ten minutes from Eygyptian air space

EgyptAir flight 804 disappears en route from Paris to Cairo with over 60 on board

An EgyptAir flight carrying at least 59 passengers and 10 crew members went off the radar after departing from Paris and heading to Cairo, the airline said in a brief statement.

“An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight No. MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar,” the airline said on its Twitter.

Flight MS804 left Charles de Gaulle Airport at 11:09 pm on Wednesday Paris time and was expected to arrive in Cairo by 3 am on Thursday. A direct flight usually takes just over four hours.

The Egyptian government has released no comment on the incident so far.

An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

EgyptAir tweeted out that the flight disappeared from radar at 2:45 am Cairo time, when the plane was at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,300 meters) and around 10 miles (16 kilometers) inside Egyptian airspace.

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Wow, sounds terrible. We'll see if any of the usual suspects claim responsibility.

15 minutes ago
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/18/egypt-air-flight-goes-radar-en-route-paris/84575288/

Egypt's government says they will release info, when they have it.
No, comment from the airline itself.
Not even from egyptair.com

I do hope for the safety of the passengers and crew.

Not many things can go wrong with a plane that don't give the pilot time to call in. This event smells of terrorism.

should have taken them over the Mediterranean,unless they were fool enough to cross over Libya!

The flight path of EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo is seen on a flight tracking screen May 19, 2016. © Flightradar24.com / Reuters

Rescuers are trying to locate an EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight that disappeared off radar screens over the Mediterranean Sea with 66 people aboard just minutes before it was expected to land

19 May 2016
06:41 GMT

The missing Airbus A320-233 previously experienced an engine problem in 2013, SkyNews Arabia cited an Egyptian civil aviation source as saying. On that occasion, the plane was scheduled to fly from Cairo to Istanbul, but had to return for an emergency landing.
06:25 GMT

"We are in close contact with the Egyptian authorities, both civil and military,” French Prime Minister Manuel Valls told RTL radio. “The Egyptian authorities have already sent air reconnaissance teams to the site, and France is ready to help with the search if the Egyptian authorities ask, of course."

He added: "At this stage, no theory can be ruled out regarding the causes of the disappearance.”

06:22 GMT

Egyptian military unit received distress signal from EgyptAir MS804 plane at 0226 GMT – Egypt's Civil Aviation Ministry.
06:19 GMT

EgyptAir Flight MS804 went off the radar two minutes after leaving Greek airspace, the Greek civil aviation chief said.
05:43 GMT

05:40 GMT

EgyptAir has released information about the nationalities of the passengers on the plane. The airline said there were 30 Egyptians, 15 French and two Iraqi citizens on board, along with one person from each of Britain, Belgium, Portugal, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Algeria and Canada.

05:32 GMT

Citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, France, Britain and Iraq were on board the missing flight MS804, SkyNews Arabia reported.
05:32 GMT

5:31 GMT

The Greek Defense Ministry has deployed a frigate and two military aircraft to the area where the EgyptAir plane went missing to take part in a search and rescue mission, it reported.

05:17 GMT

The missing EgyptAir flight MS804 most likely fell into the sea, officials from the airline and the Egyptian civil aviation authority said.

The local newspaper Ahram reported that the last contact with the pilot was about 10 minutes before the plane disappeared from radar screens, and that there was no distress call.

03:50 GMT

The vice-chairman of EgyptAir holding company, Ahmed Abdel, said that there were only 66 people aboard, including 56 passengers, 3 security personnel, 2 cockpit crew and 5 cabin crew members, and not 69, as claimed earlier

Abdel said that there were “no recorded snags coming out of Cairo,” the Guardian reported.



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EgyptAir Flight From Paris To Cairo Crashed, AP Reports

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EgyptAir plane

Aviation officials tell The Associated Press that a search is underway for debris.

The wire service quotes Egyptian aviation officials as saying the "possibility that the plane crashed has been confirmed," as the plane hasn't landed in any of the nearby airports.

The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the press.

At the same time, Egypt's civil aviation ministry says it's too early to confirm if the missing plane crashed.

An informed source at EGYPTAIR reported that EGYPTAIR Flight No MS 804 has lost communication with radar tracking system at 02:45 (CLT)
— EGYPTAIR (@EGYPTAIR) May 19, 2016

The airline says Flight 804 which left Paris on its was to Cairo vanished from radar early Thursday morning, shortly after entering Egyptian airspace.

Egyptian armed forces and other groups are searching for the plane.

The plane disappeared from radar at 2:45 a.m. local time while flying at 37,000 feet, EgyptAir says.

There reportedly was no distress call from the plane.

The airline has updated the number of people on board — saying there are a total of 66 people: 56 passengers — including one child and two infants — and 10 crew aboard the Airbus A320.

Earlier, it said 69 people were on board.

According to a statement out of Paris, French President Francois Hollande told Egypt's President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi that France would help to determine the circumstances involving the plane's disappearance.

A spokesman for Airbus told reporters that the company is aware of the disappearance but doesn't have any official information on the incident.

In March, an EgyptAir flight was hijacked and made to fly to Cyprus by a man who was later described as "psychologically unstable." He remains in custody in Cyprus.

About Thursday's missing plane, The Associated Press reports:

The incident renewed security concerns months after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula. The Russian plane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board. Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device, and a local branch of the extremist Islamic State group has claimed responsibility for planting it.

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Egypt Denies Received SOS Signal From Missing EgyptAir Passenger Plane

http://sputniknews.com/world/20160519/1039865518/egyptair-sos-signal-denial.html/

seems there were some reports of a fireball (missile) around the same time...

http://themillenniumreport.com/2016/05/egyptair-flight-ms804-goes-missing-at-same-time-of-mysterious-fireball-or-missile/

Headline on CNN right now:

"U.S. Officials: Early Belief Is Bomb Took Down Plane "


...shocked I tell ya, shocked.

And on a side note...if you are a passenger...in this day and age....and you board a flight with 'Egypt Air', dontcha think silently "God I hope I make it through this flight"?

or a missile...

serious Jinx on that Airline!
Entering that Region these days means you are taking your life in your hands!

Citizens of Egypt, Saudi Arabia, France, Britain and Iraq were on board the missing flight MS804, SkyNews Arabia reported.
05:32 GMT

Looking at the seating chart, the plane was brought down by mutual animosity...

I don't really care if it was a missile or a bomb, it doesnt matter atm...the facts will come out if, in fact it is terrorism. I just won't be surprised if it is.

a missile means that someone had the tech to shoot down a plane at 30,0000 feet in the air, something that land based shooters don't have access too... thats top tech, meaning they had to have had help from a counties military hardware...

Using that protocol, the suspects are Turkey,Syria and Russia.

and the US, NATO, France, England and Iran... anyone could have had a ship in the Mediterranean..

And I'm not discounting that possibility....I just need a better source than some alternative news website who had a recent headline of:

"Steps Towards Armageddon
Part 2
This is Not a Drill, a Conspiracy Theory, or Dan Brown Movie

By Anonymous Patriots"

...but if it makes you feel good inside knowing you were right about it being a missile, more power to you.