An EgyptAir plane en route from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday after swerving sharply with Egypt saying the possibility of a terror attack or a technical error could not be ruled out
Cairo: An EgyptAir plane en route from Paris to Cairo carrying 66 people crashed in the Mediterranean Sea yesterday after swerving sharply with Egypt saying the possibility of a terror attack or a technical error could not be ruled out.
A relative of a passenger cries as family members are transported by bus to a gathering point at Cairo airport yesterday. (Right) A relative of a victim of the EgyptAir flight crash makes a phone call at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside Paris yesterday. Pics/AP & AFP
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Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash. “We cannot rule anything out,” he told reporters at Cairo airport.
Relatives of a passenger who was flying aboard the EgyptAir plane cries at Cairo airport yesterday. Pic/AFP
Debris found
Signs of possible wreckage were found yesterday off the Greek island of Crete, a Greek military spokesman said. “There have been finds southeast of Crete, inside the Cairo flight information area,” general staff spokesman Vassilis Beletsiotis said while adding that an Egyptian C-130 plane had spotted the floating objects, and ships that would be sent for investigation.
A file photo of the EgyptAir plane MS804 at Cairo international Airport that crashed in the Mediterranean. Pic/AFP
EgyptAir said a “distress call” had been received from the plane two hours after it disappeared from radar. The Egyptian military, however, denied that any distress calls were received. Egyptian military search and rescue teams were combing the area to locate the debris of the plane. French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault offered to send military planes and boats to join the Egyptian search for wreckage.
Before crash
The Airbus A320 was flying at 37,000 feet when it disappeared shortly after entering Egyptian airspace at 2:45 am local time. EgyptAir Flight 804 lost contact with radar after it entered Egyptian airspace, around 280 kilometres off the country’s coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria.
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