EgyptAir missing plane: Signal 2-hours afterwards (UPDATE)

EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew disappeared from radar early Thursday morning.

UPDATE

Distress signal detected from missing EgyptAir flight

A distress signal from the missing EgyptAir flight at 4.26am almost two hours after it disappeared from radar screens at 2.30am.

The distress signal could have come from an emergency locator transmitter or a beacon.

The pilot did not mention any problems in his last communication when the plane was over the Greek island of Kea.

PASSENGER LIST

Among the plane's 56 passengers and 10 crew there were two cockpit crew, five cabin crew and three security personnel, two babies and one child.

The breakdown in terms of nationality was 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis, and one each from the UK, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria and Canada.

(Source: Bangkok Post Breaking News here)

AIR SAFETY

EgyptAir Paris-Cairo flight missing over Mediterranean

19/05/2016
AP News Agency

CAIRO (AP) - An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew disappeared from radar early Thursday morning, the airline said.

The Airbus A320 most likely crashed into the sea, Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation agency, told SkyNews Arabia.

DISAPPEARED FROM RADAR AS PLANE ENTERED EGYPTIAN AIRSPACE

The plane was about to enter Egyptian airspace when it disappeared from radar.

The airline, however, said it had vanished 10 miles (16 kilometres) after it entered Egyptian airspace.

EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at 2.45am local time, the airline said.

It was flying at 37,000 feet when it disappeared.

The Paris airport authority and the French civil aviation authority would not immediately comment.

EGYPTAIR'S RECENT HIJACKING 

An EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus in March.

A man who admitted to the hijacking and is described by Cypriot authorities as "psychologically unstable'' is in custody in Cyprus.

RUSSIAN PLANE BLOWN OUT OF THE AIR

The incident renewed security concerns months after a Russian passenger plane was blown out of the sky over the Sinai Peninsula.

The Russian plane crashed in Sinai on Oct. 31, killing all 224 people on board.

Moscow said it was brought down by an explosive device.

A local branch of the extremist Islamic State (ISIS) group has claimed responsibility for planting the bomb

PILOT SUICIDE IN 1999?

In 1999, EgyptAir Flight 1990 crashed into the Atlantic Ocean near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 people aboard.

U.S. investigators filed a final report that concluded its co-pilot switched off the autopilot and pointed the Boeing 767 downward.

But Egyptian officials rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting some mechanical reason caused the crash.

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