The Flight
MS804 was traveling from Paris to Cairo when it vanished from radar 10
miles into Egyptian airspace at 00.30am GMT without making a distress
call.
The plane was carrying 66 people. Fifty-six of those were passengers including two infants and one child — and the other 10 were crew members.
The airline released an initial passenger manifest by nationality, which included 30 Egyptians, 15 French people, 1 Briton, and 1 Canadian.
The Airbus A320 lost contact with radar about 280 kilometers (174 miles) from the Egyptian coast.
The Egyptian aviation minister urged people to avoid "speculation" and said Egyptian authorities were still treating the plane as missing until wreckage was found.
No distress call was sent, but hours later EgyptAir said the Egyptian military had received an automatic emergency alert. However, the Egyptian military subsequently denied this.
During a press conference on Thursday morning, French President François Hollande said "alas, the plane has crashed."
Greece's defense minister said the plane made two sharp turns and plummeted 20,000 feet before disappearing from radar.
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