66 feared dead as Egyptian plane crashes into Mediterranean

An EgyptAir flight, MS804, with 66
passengers on board went missing in the early hours of Thursday over the
Mediterranean en route from Paris to
Cairo, Egypt.

The Egyptian Civil Aviation Minister,
Sherif Fathi, said the crash was likely
caused by a terror attack rather than a technical error, USA Today reports.

The flight was said to have made two
sharp turns before it suddenly lost
altitude and vanished from radar.

Greek authorities had found floating
materials, including life vests, likely to be the wreckage from the plane, adding that the debris was found near the Greek island of Karpathos.

French President, François Hollande,
confirmed the disappearance of the
airliner but said it was too early to
determine the cause of the crash.

Egyptian and Greek authorities said the plane likely went down near the Greek island of Crete. Greek TV reported two floating orange objects that could be airplane debris were spotted in the ocean 50 miles south-east of the area where the plane vanished from radar about 174
miles off the Egyptian coast.

Greek civil aviation authorities said all appeared fine with the flight until air traffic controllers were preparing to hand it over to their Egyptian counterparts. The pilot did not respond to their calls, and the aircraft then vanished from radar just
after entering the Egyptian airspace.

Greek Defence Minister, Panos
Kammenos, said, "It turned 90 degrees left and then a 360-degree turn toward the right, dropping from 38,000 to 15,000 feet and then it was lost at about 10,000 feet."

About 40 minutes before the plane
vanished, Greek air traffic controllers said the pilot reported no problems as he flew over the Greek island of Kea, according to a statement by the Hellenic Civil Aviation
Authority.

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