Earlier Thursday, a Greek military ship found two large plastic objects floating in the water that officials said, at the time, may be from the plane.
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The aircraft, which originated from Paris, France as flight MS 804, was headed to Cairo, Egypt.
It crashed into the Mediterranean Sea about halfway between the Greek island of Crete and Egypt’s coastline, or around 175 miles offshore.
Egypt’s Civil Aviation ministry said it is working with its Greek counterparts to examine what has been found off the Greek island of Karpathos, and to determine whether the items could be part of the debris from the plane that crashed before dawn on Thursday with 66 people on board.
All 66 people on board, including a child and two babies, are feared dead.
– 0626: A former director of France’s air accident investigation authority BEA, Jean-Paul Troadec, says the fact that the plane sent no distress signal was a pointer to a “brutal event” which “leads us to think of an attack”.
The airline said the plane lost contact with radar at 1.30am BST.
The White House, meanwhile, said it is too early to say definitively what caused the tragedy. “We confirm that the wreckage has been found, and the search and rescue teams are now.it’s turning into a search and recovery”.
And now some officials say terrorism may have brought the jet down!
French President Francois Hollande said that information showed the Egyptian plane had crashed.
He said data show the stricken plane made a 90 degree left-hand turn then spiraled 360 degrees to the right as it dropped 22,000 feet.
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Greek civil aviation chief Constantinos Litzerakos said the pilot had mentioned no problem in the last communication before the plane disappeared, and it had not deviated from its course.
Relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar wait outside the Egyptair in-flight service building.
Egypt and Greece both dispatched aircraft and naval vessels on a search mission and they were expected to be joined by French teams.
The Egyptian military released footage of the ongoing search for EgyptAir Flight MS804 after it went missing overnight 174 miles off the coast of Egypt.
An EgyptAir flight from Alexandria to Cairo was hijacked in March and forced to divert to Cyprus, where the hijacker demanded to see his ex-wife.
A Russian passenger jet crashed in the Sinai Peninsula in Egypt on October 31, 2015. The co-pilot had 2,766 flight hours logged, the company said.
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Greek air traffic controllers had spoken to the pilot over the island of Kea, in what was thought to be the last broadcast from the aircraft.
