EgyptAir flight MS804 disappears from radar between Paris and Cairo

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[h=1]BREAKING NEWS: EgyptAir flight MS804 carrying 69 people from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar[/h]

• Airbus A320 left the French capital at 11:09pm local time on Wednesday
• There were 59 passengers and 10 crew on board when it vanished
• Airline said contact was lost with the plane 80miles from Egyptian air space
• Egyptian officials have sent out search and rescue teams

By WILLS ROBINSON FOR DAILYMAIL.COM
PUBLISHED: 04:12, 19 May 2016 | UPDATED: 04:40, 19 May 2016
EgyptAir flight MS804 heading from Paris to Cairo has gone missing.
The Airbus A320 left the French capital's Charles De Gaulle at 11:09pm local time on Wednesday night and then disappeared off radar shortly before it was due to land in Egypt.
It was supposed to arrive at 3:05am local time. There were 59 passengers and 10 crew on board.

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EgyptAir flight MS804 heading from Paris to Cairo has gone missing. There were 69 people on board the A320 (file picture)

The airline tweeted: 'An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.'
They added that the plane disappeared 80miles (10 minutes) before it was set to enter Egyptian airspace at 37,000ft.
They said it was fading when air traffic control lost contact with the plane at 02:45 Cairo time, 15 minutes before it was set to land.
Egyptian officials have already sent out search and rescue teams.
Shortly after news of the disappearance broke, the Egyptair website crashed.

The airline posted this Tweet after the flight vanished from radar

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A radar shows the plane's path travelling from Paris and then stopping before reaching Cairo, where it lost contact with air traffic control




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2m ago04:48
Egypt’s civil aviation ministry has confirmed that search and rescue teams are looking for the missing plane.
It also confirms that contact with the plane was lost 10miles/16km within Egyptian airspace.

 

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8m ago04:42
[h=2]What we know[/h]Details are still – understandably – sketchy and facts still emerging.
Here is what we know, via EgyptAir’s official statements:

• Flight MS804, en route from Paris Charles de Gaulle to Cairo, has disappeared from radar
• The plane, an Airbus A320, was scheduled to leave Paris at 11.09pm on Wednesday night.
• The airline said contact was lost around 16km/10 miles into Egyptian airspace at 2.45am local time.
• The plane was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew.
• The plane was travelling at 37,000 feet when it disappeared from radar.
• Search and rescue efforts are underway.
• There is no detail yet on possible reasons for the plane’s disappearance.

 

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20m ago04:31
A clarification from Egyptair, which now says the plane “faded” from contact 10 miles (16km) inside Egyptian airspace:

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تعديل: اختفت الطائرة بعد الدخول إلى المجال الجوي المصري بـ 10 ميل.​

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1m ago05:22
This graphic from Flightradar24 shows what it believes to be the last satellite communication from the plane, which tallies with the report from EgyptAir’s Ahmed Abdel that the location of last contact was around 30-40 miles north from the Egyptian coast.
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Last received ADS-B position from #MS804 with Egyptian FIR (Egyptian airspace) boundary overlay.
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4m ago05:20
Ahmed Abdel says – and this differs slightly from the numbers given by EgyptAir via Twitter earlier – there were 66 people on board:

• 56 passengers
• 3 security personnel
• 2 cockpit crew
• 5 cabin crew crew

There were “no recorded snags coming out of Cairo” or reported before leaving Charles de Gaulle for Cairo, he says.

The captain on flight has 6,000+ flying hours, including 2,000 on an A320.
Abdel says there was no special cargo on the flight and no notification had been made to the captain of dangerous goods on board.




6m ago05:17
[h=2]'No distress call'[/h]Ahmed Abdel, the vice-chairman of EgyptAir holding company, has been speaking to CNN.
He says there was no distress call from the plane.

Search and rescue has been dispatched and are now at the scene … Daylight has just broken around an hour ago, so we should get some information within the next hour.

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He says search teams were informed the coordinates of where the aircraft lost contact and a rescue plane has arrived at that area.
This is at the border of the flight information region (FIR) between Athens and Egypt, around 30/40 miles north of the Egyptian coast.




18m ago05:05
A useful catch-up from Reuters:

National carrier EgyptAir said a plane carrying 69 passengers and crew on a flight from Paris to Cairo had gone missing on Thursday, disappearing from radar over the Mediterranean sea.
“An official source at EgyptAir stated that Flight MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar,” the airline said on its official Twitter account.
Later Tweets by EgyptAir said the plane, which was travelling at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280m), disappeared soon after entering Egyptian airspace. The aircraft was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew.
According to flightradar24.com, the plane was an Airbus A320 and its last known position was above the Mediterranean sea.
An Airbus A321 operated by Russia’s Metrojet crashed in the Sinai in 31 October 2015, killing all 224 people on board. Russia and Western governments have said the plane was likely brought down by a bomb, and the Islamic State militant group said it had smuggled an explosive on board.
Reuters reported in January that an EgyptAir mechanic, whose cousin joined Islamic State in Syria, is suspected of planting the bomb, according to sources familiar with the matter.
In March, an EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked and forced to land in Cyprus by a man with what authorities said was a fake suicide belt. He was arrested after giving himself up.
France’s aviation authority could not immediately be reached for comment.
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20m ago05:03
The late-night departure from Paris Charles de Gaulle was this plane’s fifth flight of the day, according to this tracker:
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the Paris-Cairo flight was the 5th that day for #MS804@Claire_Phipps
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24m ago04:59
The fact that the plane was inside Egyptian airspace when contact was lost does not necessarily mean it is over land, as this graphic indicates:
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The start of Egyptian air space stretches far into the Mediterranean as identified by the blue order. #MS804
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27m ago04:57
[h=2]Flight timings[/h]

• The plane left Paris Charles de Gaulle at 23.09 local time Wednesday (21.09 GMT/22.09 BST/07.09am Thursday AEST).
• It lost contact at 02.45am Cairo time (00.45 GMT/01.45 BST/10.45 AEST).
• The plane has now been missing for more than three hours.

The plane was around 3 hours and 40 minutes into its journey (that was not, as earlier reported, the total journey time) when contact was lost.

 

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All times BST

 

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[h=3]BREAKDOWN OF PEOPLE ON BOARD[/h]

56 passengers (including two infants and a child)
3 security personnel
2 cockpit crew
5 cabin crew crew



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3m ago06:39
[h=2]Passenger nationalities[/h]EgyptAir has published a list of most of those on board by nationality:

• 30 Egyptian
• 15 French
• 2 Iraqi
• 1 British
• 1 Belgian
• 1 Sudanese
• 1 Chadian
• 1 Portuguese
• 1 Algerian

 

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Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!

 

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[h=2]French intelligence warned the country was 'clearly being targeted by ISIS' and was at risk of 'a new form of attack' a week before Paris flight to Egypt [/h]

The head of France's internal intelligence agency warned France was being 'clearly targeted' by ISIS a week before Flight MS804 took off. Patrick Calvar gave a warning on May 10

 

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[h=2]Egypt's tourism industry 'is one disaster from being finished' after MS804 crash, say experts [/h]

Figures from February this year show that tourism to Egypt has practically halved and the average number of nights spent in the country is down by 67.2 per cent compared to 2015.

 

[Willie99]

sad, I hate stories like this, so many lives altered

 

[SheriffJoe]

"Those evil sick Christians have struck again!" -- The Guesser

 

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Yes Guesser is on the ball again.

Originally Posted by The Guesser
Extremists are extremists. Extremist Islamist Militants have the same extreme Beliefs as Extreme Right Wing Christians on the topics in the meme. How the idiots act in their Countries, compared to how people act in this country goes to the Civility of America, which thank G-d isn't ruled by Religious Extremists(yet) vs their Countries where Religious Extremists rule.

 

[Seymour]

I wonder if this had anything to do with those Christian terrorist

 

[MantisToboggan]

"Those evil sick Christians have struck again!" -- The Guesser

I'm sure there is no need to repeat my opinion on Guesser and his view on Christians, as I'm fairly certain you all already know. That said, this hasn't been confirmed as Islamic terrorism and even if it had been, it's a cheap shot to use it to take a shot at TG. He can be anti-Christian and anti-Islamic terrorism at the same time.

 

[PatsFanatic]

My friend is a former Army Ranger and Air Marshall, now he deploys weekly on trips to "follow" people on the watch list.
He just came back from Paris last week and his exact words to me were "Paris is screwed, they have no idea who comes and goes from France, it is only a matter of time".

Mantis is right, this hasn't been confirmed terrorism, but I think we all know where this is going....

 

[MantisToboggan]

My friend is a former Army Ranger and Air Marshall, now he deploys weekly on trips to "follow" people on the watch list.
He just came back from Paris last week and his exact words to me were "Paris is screwed, they have no idea who comes and goes from France, it is only a matter of time".

Mantis is right, this hasn't been confirmed terrorism, but I think we all know where this is going....

I agree with you there. According to experts, it seems odds are terrorism > technical problem.

 

[vitterd]

I'm sure there is no need to repeat my opinion on Guesser and his view on Christians, as I'm fairly certain you all already know. That said, this hasn't been confirmed as Islamic terrorism and even if it had been, it's a cheap shot to use it to take a shot at TG. He can be anti-Christian and anti-Islamic terrorism at the same time.

It wouldn't be the first time these right wingers here have jumped the gun on attacks. It looks that way though......but not confirmed.