Search and rescue teams looking for missing EgyptAir plane

Record ID: 102779

  • Title: Search and rescue teams looking for missing EgyptAir plane
  • Date: 19th May 2016
  • Summary: CAIRO, EGYPT (FILE) (REUTERS) EXTERIOR OF CAIRO INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT VARIOUS OF PASSENGERS INSIDE DEPARTURE HALL VARIOUS OF AN EGYPTAIR PLANE ON TARMAC AIRLINE WORKER SEEN STANDING NEXT TO PLANE BEFORE TAKEOFF MORE OF PASSENGERS INSIDE DEPARTURE HALL SCREEN DISPLAYING FLIGHT DEPARTURE INFORMATION JETBRIDGE ATTACHED TO AIRPLANE AIRPLANE ENGINE SECURITY DOG SNIFFING AROUND LUGGAGE VARIOUS OF EGYPTAIR PLANES PREPARING FOR TAKEOFF
  • Embargoed: 3rd June 2016 05:41
  • Keywords: EgyptAir missing plane MS804 Paris Cairo
  • Location: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • City: CAIRO, EGYPT
  • Country: Egypt
  • Topics: Air Accidents,Disaster/Accidents
  • Reuters ID: LVA0014IH1Y6F
  • Aspect Ratio: 16:9
  • Story Text: Search and rescue teams are looking for an EgyptAir plane that disappeared from radar en route to Cairo from Paris, the Egyptian national carrier said on Thursday (May 19).
    The plane carrying 69 passengers and crew departed from Paris bound for Cairo but had disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, the airline said.
    "An official source at EgyptAir stated that Flight MS804, which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST), heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar," the airline said on its official Twitter account.
    Later Tweets by EgyptAir said the plane, which was travelling at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,280 metres), disappeared soon after entering Egyptian airspace. The Airbus A320 aircraft was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew, it said.
    According to flightradar24.com, the plane's last known position was above the Mediterranean Sea.
    Technical information about the condition of the plane was being gathered, said a source at Egypt's civil aviation ministry.
    A French airport official said of the EgyptAir flight: "It did not land. That is all we can say for the moment."
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