EgyptAir says plane carrying 66 on board vanishes from radar

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo considering 66 passengers and crew concerning the bus disappeared from radar to the fore Thursday daylight, the airline said.

EgyptAir Flight 804 was drifting from radar at 2:45 a.m. local era gone it was on high at 37,000 feet, the airline said. It said the Airbus A320 had vanished 10 miles (16 kilometers) after it entered Egyptian airspace.

The blimp maybe crashed into the sea, said Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation authority, according to a excuse by the Abu Dhabi-based SkyNews Arabia. However, Raslan sophisticated told The Associated Press that it was too to the fore to publicize if the blimp had crashed.

Egyptian military jet were searching for the plane, which was carrying 56 passengers, including one child and two babies, and 10 crew members. The pilot had 6,000 flight hours. Earlier, the airline said 69 people were regarding the bus.

EgyptAir merged said those vis--vis speaking the bus included 15 French passengers, 30 Egyptians, one Briton, two Iraqis, one Kuwaiti, one Saudi, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Belgian, one Algerian and one Canadian.

Egypt's melody-control newspaper Al-Ahram quoted an airstrip qualified as saw the pilot did not send a involve call, and that last reply taking into account the plane was made 10 minutes since it disappeared from radar. It did not identify the credited.

Airbus is happening to date of the disappearance, but "we have no credited information at this stage of the certitude of an collision," the company's spokesman Jacques Rocca said.

The Paris airfield authority and the French civil aviation authority would not immediately comment.
Queries very about the missing jet sent out to the U.S. Federal Aviation Agency were not returned yet to be Thursday.

French president Francois Hollande spoke as soon as Egyptian president Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi more or less the phone and utterly to "contiguously cooperate to statement taking into account realizable the circumstances" in which the EgyptAir flight disappeared, according to a message issued in Paris.

French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said no scenario could be ruled out at the moment as for what caused the blimp to disappear. France, he told RTL radio, was "ready" to associate the search operation if Egyptian authorities requested his country's warn.

Around 15 intimates of passengers in relation to the bus the missing flight have arrived at Cairo airstrip. Airport authorities brought doctors to the scene after several hurt associates members collapsed.

Neither France's Foreign Ministry nor Interior Ministry would comment about the disappearance or upon whether it could have been an belligerence.

France remains out cold a impression of emergency after Islamic extremist attacks killed 130 people in a spree of attacks in November claimed by the extremist Islamic State organization.

Greece allied the search and rescue operation for the EgyptAir flight as soon as two dirigible: one C-130 and one in front reprimand jet, officials at the Hellenic National Defense General Staff said. They said one frigate was also heading to the place, and helicopters are upon standby upon the southern island of Karpathos for potential rescue or recovery operations.

An EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus in March. A man who admitted to the hijacking and is described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable" is in custody in Cyprus.

The incident renewed security concerns at Egyptian airports after a Russian passenger plane crashed in Sinai last October, killing all 224 people upon board. Moscow said it was brought furthermore to by an explosive device, and a local branch of the Islamic State has claimed responsibility for planting it.

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean muggy the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing every one one of 217 people aboard,

U.S. investigators filed a definite footnote that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and unpleasant the Boeing 767 downward. But Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide the whole, insisting some mechanical defense caused the wreck.