The passenger plane of the Egyptian airline EgyptAir with 66 people on board crashed according to the authorities. This was announced by the Egyptian Civil Aviation Authority on Thursday. The machine with the flight number MS804 was launched late on Wednesday in Paris. She was on the road to Cairo.
On board were 56 passengers, including a child and two infants, seven crew members and three security guards, reported the airline. Previously had been 59 passengers and ten crew members talk.
Another Tweet airline stated that the machine had disappeared totaling 11,280 meters. Egypt Air had the relevant authorities and agencies alarmed and put a rescue operation under way, said the company with.
An Egyptian military unit received around 4:26 a signal about an emergency at the machine, as the competent ministry said.
Earlier, the Egyptian newspaper had “reported, the pilots had sent no signals that the plane in distress was. The last contact was ten minutes before the disappearance occurred from the radar.
It is in the machine to an Airbus A320 from 2003. On the flightradar24 .com is traced to the loss of communication, the flight route. This ends abruptly over the Mediterranean Sea between Crete, Cyprus and the Egyptian mainland. The Egyptian Flight Authority share the morning with, we assume that the machine was thrown into the sea.
Details of Egyptian forces According meanwhile an international search underway. Egypt and Greece sent planes and ships to look for the missing machine out.
The state television reported the contact to the machine was 2:45 in the morning tore off. There were initially conflicting reports on whether the aircraft was at that time already in the Egyptian airspace. The pilot had completed 6275 hours of flight, the copilot 2766, EgyptAir announced on Twitter.
According to the airline were on board the plane 30 passengers from Egypt, 15 from France, two from Iraq, as well as one passenger from Sudan, Chad, Algeria, Portugal, Canada, the UK, Belgium, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. German were therefore not listed.
Air Minister breaking visit to Saudi Arabia from
According to the relevant ministry of the Egyptian Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi broke a visit to Saudi Arabia from and set out on the road to Cairo.
The missing aircraft arouses unpleasant memories: In October 2015, Airbus Russian society Metrojet had crashed over the Sinai. Here all 224 people on board were killed. Russia and Western states believe that the machine was brought down by a bomb attack.
Insider had reported that an Egypt-Air Mechanic had brought the explosive device in the aircraft. He had reported to a cousin in the extremist militia Islamic State in Syria.
Egypt Air came last with kidnapping in the headlines
Normally it takes a flight from Charles de Gaulle airport to Cairo around four hours. Flight MS804 should land at 03:05 in the Egyptian capital.
Egypt Air was only the end of March in the headlines when an Egyptian one Airbus A320 of the airline on a domestic flight between Alexandria and Cairo brought into his power and abducted to Cyprus. After hours of negotiation, all passengers and crew members were able to leave the plane without prejudice, the hijacker was arrested.
a terrorist background joined the authorities in the abduction in March. The Cypriot authorities identified the man as “mentally unstable”. With the abduction he had apparently want to force a reunion with his Cypriot ex-wife.
Biggest accident in Egypt Air occurred in 1999
the biggest accident in the history of the airline was Egypt Air flight 990 in October 1999. at that time, on a flight from New York to Cairo 217 people lost their lives. About half an hour after the start just after midnight, the Boeing 767 disappeared from radar screens.
The cause of the accident was never clarified, but probably it was a suicide of the first officer of a replacement crew, who was on board and the Kopilotenplatz took over.
When the captain went to the toilet, he exhibited the engines and the autopilot and initiated a nosedive from 10,000 feet. The plane was racing with fast speed of sound to the ground. From tape documents was determined later that the first officer during the crash phase about a dozen times said the sentence “I trust in God.” Although
The returned from the toilet pilots still managed an interception of the aircraft in about 5,000 meters, but it was due to the shut down engines to crash. The probable suicide flight from Egypt Air 990 shows parallels to German Wings Crash Flight 9525 in March 2015, 150 dead, in which the co-pilot deliberately to crash brought about.
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