Missing Plane: What you Need to Know About EgyptAir Flight
An EgyptAir Flight disapeared early this morning. So far, this is what we know:
- An EgyptAir flight carrying 56 passengers and ten crew has disappeared
- Flight MS804 lost contact with radar at 02:45 Cairo time (01.45 London time)
- Watch: Radar map shows the route of EgyptAir flight MS804 before it loses signal
- The plane left Paris Charles de Gaulle at 11.09pm on Wednesday and was heading to Cairo
- The plane lost contact ten miles after entering Egyptian air space
- Second major incident to hit airline this year after one of its planes was hijacked in March
- Egypt’s civil aviation ministry has confirmed that search and rescue teams are looking for the plane
EgyptAir says it is yet to confirm why flight MS804 vanished from radar and then crashed in the early hours of Thursday morning.
“The search and rescue aircraft from the Egyptian air force are at the position where we lost contact. They are still looking and so far there is nothing found,” EgyptAir vice chairman Ahmed Adel told Reuters earlier.
Henry Samuel in Paris writes:
France has offered to send planes and boats to the crash area, Jean-Marc Ayrault, the French foreign minister declared this morning.
French president Franรงois Hollande spoke to his Egyptian countepart, Abdel Fattah al-Sissi this morning, Mr Ayrault confirmed.
We are at Egyptian authorities’s disposal with our military means, our planes and boats, to help find this plane, but for now the priority is to help and inform the families.”
A crisis cell has been set up at the foreign minister and a single number for families has been opened. A crisis cell has been opened at the French embassy in Cairo, he added.
Alain Vidales, the French transport minister, confirmed that there was “no freight” on board the plane, and that there were three security agents, which was a “normal procedure for this company”.
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