EgyptAir Flight 804 crashes en route from Paris to Cairo
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Recovered debris of the EgyptAir jet that crashed in the Mediterranean Sea is seen in this handout image released May 21, 2016 by Egypt’s military. Egyptian (Military/Handout via Reuters)
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U.S. Navy LT. JG Dylon Porlas checks a screen aboard U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion patrol aircraft from Sigonella, Sicily, Sunday, May 22, 2016, searching the area in the Mediterranean Sea where the Egyptair flight 804 en route from Paris to Cairo went missing on May 19. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
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Coptic Christians grieve during prayers for the departed, remembering the victims of EgyptAir flight 804 at Al-Boutrossiya Church, at the main Coptic Cathedral complex, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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This still image taken from video posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows an Egyptian dinghy collecting wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)
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This still image taken from video posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows a piece of carpet from the wreckage of EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)
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U.S. Navy LT JG Katia Medford-Davis looks from a window of a U.S. Navy Lockheed P-3C Orion patrol aircraft from Sigonella, Sicily, Sunday, May 22, 2016, searching the area in the Mediterranean Sea where the Egyptair flight 804 en route from Paris to Cairo went missing on May 19. (AP Photo/Salvatore Cavalli)
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This picture posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows part of the wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)
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This picture posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows a life vest from EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)
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A Coptic Christian grieves during prayers for the departed, remembering the victims of Thursday’s crash of EgyptAir flight 804, at Al-Boutrossiya Church, the main Coptic Cathedral complex, in Cairo, Egypt, Sunday, May 22, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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This picture posted Saturday, May 21, 2016, on the official Facebook page of the Egyptian Armed Forces spokesman shows a life vest from EgyptAir flight 804. (Egyptian Armed Forces via AP)
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Imam Samir Abdel Bary comforts film director Osman Abu Laban, who lost four relatives in Thursday’s EgyptAir plane crash, following prayers for the dead at al Thawrah Mosque, in Cairo, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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An engineer stands in front of a C-130 HAUP of the Hellenic Air Force, which took part in the search operation for the missing EgyptAir plane, at the military air base of Kastelli on Crete, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Thanassis Stavrakis)
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Egyptians saying prayers for the dead at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, May 20, 2016. (AP Photo/Amr Nabil)
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An engineer checks a plane at the 133rd Hellenic Air Force Base in Kasteli on the island of Crete, May 20, 2016. (Reuters/Stefanos Rapanis)
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A French investigation team arrives at the Ministry of Aviation to discuss EgyptAir Flight 804, at the Cairo International Airport, May 20, 2016. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
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In this May 19, 2016, video image, an Egyptian plane searches the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir plane. (AP/Egyptian Defense Ministry)
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Relatives and friends of Salah Abu Laban, Sahar Qouidar, Ghassan Abu Laban and Reem al-Sebaei, all victims of EgyptAir flight 804, grieve following prayers for the dead at al Thawrah Mosque in Cairo, May 20, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)
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In this video image, an Egyptian ship searches the Mediterranean Sea for the missing EgyptAir Flight 804 plane, May 19, 2016. (AP/Egyptian Defense Ministry)
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Airport security checks an EgyptAir plane after arrival from Cairo to Luxor International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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Relatives of passengers on a vanished EgyptAir flight grieve as they leave the in-flight service building at Cairo International Airport, May 19, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)
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Relatives of passengers on a vanished EgyptAir flight leave the EgyptAir in-flight service building where they were held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)
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Egypt’s Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathy speaks, after an EgyptAir plane vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo, during a news conference at headquarters of ministry in Cairo, Egypt May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
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Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo react as they wait outside the EgyptAir in-flight service building, where relatives are being held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail talks to reporters at Cairo International Airport, Thursday, May 19, 2016. He said it was too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash. “We cannot rule anything out,” he said. (AP/Selman Elotefy)
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A relative of the victims of the EgyptAir Flight 804 is escorted at Charles de Gaulle Airport outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP/Michel Euler)
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The EgyptAir plane scheduled to make the following flight from Paris to Cairo, after Flight 804 disappeared from radar, taxies on the tarmac at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Christian Hartmann)
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Egyptians gather outside the arrivals section of Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)
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An unidentified woman reacts as she waits outside the EgyptAir in-flight service building, where relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
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Relatives of passengers on a vanished EgyptAir flight leave the EgyptAir in-flight service building where they were held at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP/Amr Nabil)
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A relative of the victims of EgyptAir Flight 804 wipes her tears as she is comforted by unidentified people at Charles de Gaulle Airport, outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP/Michel Euler)
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People wait outside the international arrivals terminal at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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A relative of a crew member of an EgyptAir plane, which vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo, reacts as she arrives outside the EgyptAir in-flight service building, where relatives are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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An EgyptAir aircraft prepares to land at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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Unidentified relatives and friends of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo react as they wait outside the EgyptAir in-flight service building where relatives are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Mohamed Abd El Ghany)
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Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos speaks during a news conference on an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo, after exiting the Greek airspace, in Athens, Greece, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Michalis Karagiannis)
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Egypt and EgyptAir flags are seen in front of an EgyptAir in-flight service building, where relatives of passengers who were flying in an EgyptAir plane that vanished from radar en route from Paris to Cairo are being held, at Cairo International Airport, Egypt, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh)
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French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault arrives at Charles de Gaulle Airport’s Mercure hotel, where passengers’ relatives have been met by EgyptAir representatives and a team of medical and psychological support staff, outside of Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. (AP Photo/Michel Euler)
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A man passes the EgyptAir desk at Charles de Gaulle Airport after an EgyptAir flight disappeared from radar during its flight from Paris to Cairo, in Paris, France, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Christian Hartmann)
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Egyptian President Abdel-Fattah el-Sissi, center, convenes an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, the country’s highest security body, following the early Thursday morning crash of an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board, in Cairo, Egypt, Thursday, May 19, 2016. The council includes the prime minister and the defense, foreign and interior ministers, in addition to the chiefs of the intelligence agencies. (MENA via AP)
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In this Dec. 10, 2014, image, an EgyptAir Airbus A320 shows the registration SU-GCC on the tarmac at Cairo airport. Egyptian aviation officials said on Thursday, May 19, 2016, that EgyptAir Flight 804, with the registration SU-GCC, traveling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed. (AirTeamImages via AP)
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French President François Hollande attends a national conference at the Élysée Palace in Paris, Thursday, May 19, 2016. Hollande has confirmed the crash of the EgyptAir flight and says no hypothesis is ruled out or preferred, including an accident or a terrorist act. (Gonzalo Fuentes, Pool via AP)
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Police take position at Terminal 1 at Charles de Gaulle Airport, after an EgyptAir flight disappeared from radar during its flight from Paris to Cairo, in Paris, May 19, 2016. (Reuters/Christian Hartmann)
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This January 2015 image shows an EgyptAir Airbus A320 with the registration SU-GCC in the air near Zaventem airport, in Brussels. Egyptian aviation officials said on Thursday, May 19, 2016, that EgyptAir Flight 804 with the registration SU-GCC, traveling from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board, has crashed. The officials say the search is now underway for the debris. (AP Photo/Kevin Cleynhens)
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The flight path of EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo is seen on a flight-tracking screen, May 19, 2016. (Courtesy Flightradar24.com/Handout via Reuter)
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A general view shows Terminal 1 at the Charles de Gaulle International Airport, in Roissy, near Paris, Sept. 17, 2014, where missing EgyptAir Flight 804 originated from. (Reuters/Charles Platia)
An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew onboard crashed in the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete early Thursday morning, May 19, 2016, Egyptian and Greek officials said.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said it was too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash. “We cannot rule anything out,” he told reporters at Cairo airport.
EgyptAir Flight 804 was lost from radar at around 2:45 a.m. local time when it was flying at 37,000 feet, according to the airline. It said the Airbus A320 vanished 10 miles into Egyptian airspace, around 175 miles off Egypt’s coastline north of the Mediterranean port city of Alexandria. Egyptian aviation officials said the plane crashed and that a search for debris was now under way. (AP)
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