Egyptair plane carrying 66 has crashed in the Mediterranean sea

Egyptair plane carrying 66 has crashed in the Mediterranean sea | Secret Flying

Aviation officials have confirmed that EgyptAir Flight 804 has crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday morning.

 

The flight which took off from Paris’ Charles de Gaulle airport heading to Cairo, Egypt was lost from radar at 2:45 a.m. local time, only 10 miles after it entered Egyptian airspace.

 

An Egyptian aviation official who spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak to the media, said the “possibility that the plane crashed has been confirmed.”

 

There were 56 passengers, along with seven crew and three security personnel on board the Airbus A320.

 

Egyptian authorities said they were conducting a search for the plane in the Mediterranean but refused to speculate about the cause of the crash. The weather at the time was clear, raising the possibility that the incident may have been the result of a deliberate act or a mechanical failure.

 

This most recent catastrophe comes less than two months after EgyptAir flight 181 was hijacked by a passenger claiming to be wearing a suicide explosive belt. That flight landed safely in Cyprus and the suicide belt was revealed to be a fake.

 

Today’s news will be another potential blow to Egypt’s tourism industry following the deliberate downing of a Russian jet which left Egypt’s Sharm el-Sheikh resort in October.