All information in accordance with the Central European summer time (CEST), which coincides with the local time in Cairo. The information from the Greek air space (plus 1 hour) have been adjusted.
The Egyptair flight MS804 is by the Egyptian government information on the way from Paris to Cairo crashed early Thursday morning. 66 people were aboard the Airbus A320. A reconstruction of the previously known processes (all figures CEST).
- Updated to stand Friday afternoon, May 20, 14:46
flight MS804: A chronology
22:45 (Wednesday) – This is the original scheduled departure time at the terminal 1 of Paris Charles de Gaulle airport. It says so on the website of the airport.
23:09 – At this time, the Airbus will have to leave the airport earlier Egyptair announcement at According Twitter
23:21 -. Charles de Gaulle airport calls this time as the actual departure time. This coincides with the data of flightradar24
1:55 (Thursday) -. Greek air traffic controllers have normal contact with the flight MS804, as the Greek state television ERT reported
<. p> 2:29 – the Greek authorities sparks to the machine because it is common to unsubscribe planes when they leave the airspace of a country. From the plane, there is no answer, also on the radar is the Airbus no longer be seen
2:30 -. At this time the aircraft is, according to Egyptair disappeared from the radar .
2:37 – the Greek air traffic controllers got even after consultation with the military air surveillance no contact with the machine. The status is then set to “unsafe”
2:41 -. The aircraft receives from the Greek authorities officially the status ” at risk. “
3:05 – are scheduled to arrive in Cairo, according to the local airport, the French Ministry of Defence and of flightradar24
3:15 am – expected arrival, according to Egyptair
4:39 – The French Foreign Ministry informs on Twitter to have set up a crisis unit
noon -. French President François Hollande goes from a stop, but also does not rule out the possibility of an accident. According to the Egyptian Aviation Minister the probability of an attack is greater than that of an accident
afternoon / evening – reports found wreckage not be confirmed
noon -. The Egyptian military discovered the wreckage of the machine. Also a part of the body and personal items are found. The backgrounds of the crash remain unclear.
Flight MS804: What do we know
- The machine of Egyptair flight number MS804 flew on Wednesday night in the French capital Paris toward Cairo from.
- against 2:30 on Thursday morning she disappeared from the radar. The contact broke therefore 280 km before the Egyptian mainland from
- -. The Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos reported to 2:37 the plane had been traveling at an altitude of more than 37 000 feet (almost 11 300 meters). “Then it made a rotation of 90 degrees to the left and after another 360 degree rotation to the right and fell to a height of 15 000 feet. His radar image disappeared at an altitude of 10 000 feet,” the minister said.
- on board the machine 66 people, including three children, seven crew members and three security guards were. 30 passengers arrived from Egypt, 15 from France. According Egyptair was no German on board, the Foreign Office had initially no evidence for it.
- The Egyptian authorities are now looking for the aircraft. the Egyptair also Greece and France as well as commercial vessels took part in the search operation.
- The Egyptian and French public prosecutor has launched an investigation.
- Airbus announced the dispatch of a technical team to Cairo, to assist with its expertise.
Flight MS804: What we do not know
- What happened to the machine. From Egyptian government sources, the Greek Defence Minister and French President Francois Hollande stated that the aircraft had crashed. but this has so far not been confirmed by the Egyptian side Officially, the aircraft remains valid as missing. The Egyptian Aviation Minister Fathi Sherif said on Thursday afternoon, the probability of an attack is due to the circumstances higher than a technical error. The United States remained in the assessment reserved.
- Where exactly disappeared the aircraft. On the website flightradar24 the route is traced to the loss of communication. This ends abruptly over the Mediterranean Sea between Crete, Cyprus and the Egyptian mainland. Late Thursday afternoon in the Mediterranean objects were discovered in the Mediterranean Sea. After back and forth, it turned out that they were not part of the missing machine. On Friday morning the search was resumed.
- When exactly happened the incident. According airline was the plane around 2:30 from Radar various wounds; contrast, reported the Greek Defence Minister Panos Kammenos of a tailspin and bagging machine to 2:37. The pilot had reported, according to the chief of the Civil Aviation Department at 1:55 still on the island Kea near Athens and does not mention any problems. When leaving the Greek flight control room they had not – as is common – reported
- confusion there was initially an automatic distress signal that the machine should have allegedly dropped to 4:26.. This had informed Egyptair. Later the Egyptian Aviation Minister stated however, a member of the rescue workers have reported this incorrectly. There had been no distress signal. If confirmed that the points to a sudden event occurring out that the Cockcpit crew had no time for an alarm.
- explanation of the reason for the traceless disappearance hope for the rescue teams of the so-called black box. But why does it take in the rather narrow crash space until it is found? “This is connected with the operation of underwater finding transmitter,” explains Martin Fendt Airbus. This transmitter is attached to the flight data recorder and the cockpit voice recorder and sends at least 30 days acoustic signals – newer models are to remain up to 90 days functional. It is activated on contact with water and then sends so-called “pings”. “But you have to be relatively close to it already to locate the signals of underwater finding transmitter,” said Fendt. “This may take several hours, but days.” “Relatively close” meant about two to three kilometers from the transmitter. In addition, the black box must not necessarily be close to the location of the machine. When searching would increasingly concentrated on a process of elimination the search field.
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