EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes en route from Paris to Cairo

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew onboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning, May 19, 2016, Egyptian and Greek officials said.

Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash. “We cannot rule anything out,” he told reporters at Cairo airport.

EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at around 2:45 a.m. local time when it was flying at 37,000 feet, according to the airline. It said the Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles into Egyptian airspace, around 175 miles off Egypt’s coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egyptian aviation officials said the plane crashed and that a search for debris was now under way. (AP)

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