Wreckage from the plane, luggage and body parts were found in the sea yesterday by an Egyptian military search team in an area about 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of the coastal city of Alexandria.
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THE EGYPTIAN investigation committee said Saturday that it’s “too early” to make judgments over the reason behind the recent EgyptAir plane crash.
“All scenarios are possible”, Sisi said at the opening of a fertilizer factory in Damietta, in northern Egypt. “So please, it is very important that we do not talk and say there is a specific scenario”, he added.
Later the Egyptian military said it had identified a search area to recover EgyptAir Airbus A320’s flight recorders. The short range of the signal can make it hard to detect underwater, and the black boxes could be resting on the seabed at a depth of over 11,000 feet. “In the beginning, one of the highest officials of EgyptAir said they believed the crash was most likely the result of a terrorist act”.
A tweet on the airline’s official account said the plane had left Paris at 23:09 pm local time (2109 GMT), “heading to Cairo (and) has disappeared from radar”.
A USA intelligence official told us the plane’s flight recorders have been approximately located via the electronic pings emitted by their beacon.
“As the investigation into the crash of EgyptAir Flight 804 continues and searchers begin to find evidence, the jihadist world has been strangely silent”.
In a press statement, the ministry said besides human remains, the army has found the plane’s seats and passengers’ belongings.
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Saturday that “all theories are being examined and none is favoured”.
CNN also reported smoke alerts on the flight minutes before it crashed, citing information it obtained from an Egyptian source that was filed through the Aircraft Communications Addressing and Reporting System, which sends messages between planes and ground facilities.
He thanked the nations that have joined Egyptian navy ships and aircraft in the search for the wreckage and started his comments with a minute of silence in remembrance of the victims. That is a contrast to the downing of a Russian jet in October over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula that killed 224 people.
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Now, news about discussions between the pilot and air control in the minutes before the flight crashed raise questions about the integrity of the investigation.
