The items were found about 180 miles north of the coastal city of Alexandria, Egyptian naval officials said.
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The discovery was announced by the Egyptian Armed Forces in a statement on Friday.
Greece’s defence minister says Greek authorities have received notification that Egyptian authorities had spotted a body part, two seats and suitcases during their search in the Mediterranean Sea for the crashed EgyptAir Flight 804.
Egypt’s aviation minister said a “terrorist attack” was a more likely cause than technical failure for the crash, voicing widely-held fears of a repeat of an October attack over Sinai that brought down a Russian passenger jet, killing 224 people.
The plane fell off the radar at 2.45am local time on Thursday morning while it was crossing the Mediterranean.
A team of Egyptian, French and British investigators and an expert from Airbus – will inspect what the army has found, according to Egyptian officials.
The pilot, Mohammed Shoukair, was experienced by Egyptian standards, with 6,275 flying hours, and co-pilot Ahmed Assem had clocked 2,101 hours, officials said.
According to Greece’s civil aviation chief, calls from Greek air traffic controllers to MS804 went unanswered just before it left Greek airspace, and it disappeared from radar screens soon afterwards.
If there are any survivors, there’s still a chance to save them, Javaheri said Thursday.
The search is continuing for missing EgyptAir flight 804, which disappeared from the radar while carrying 66 passengers and crew from Paris to Cairo.
Many hours later his likely Democratic rival Hillary Clinton also said it appeared to be an act of terrorism, although she said an investigation would have to determine the details. Among the passengers are a child and two infants.
“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. Greek searchers found some material on Thursday, but the airline later said this was not from its plane.
However, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said Friday morning that there is “absolutely no indication” of what caused the flight’s fall.
The crash comes less than two months after another of the airline’s planes was hijacked by an Egyptian man with a fake suicide vest who made it land in Cyprus in an attempt to see his ex-wife there/.
Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris has been evacuated, according to reports. The country’s aviation minister Sherif Fathi says the likelihood the plane was brought down by a terror attack is “higher than the possibility of a technical failure”.
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Families of the victims spent the night in a hotel in Cairo while they awaited the news of their loved ones.
