EgyptAir flight vanishes - attack feared

BTN News
Thursday, 19 May 2016

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 56 passengers, seven crew and three security staff on board disappeared from radar on Thursday.

 

The Egyptian prime minister Sherif Ismail refused to rule out the possibility of an attack, saying he could not exclude any possibility.

But Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of France’s air accident investigation unit the BEA said the disappearance was “almost  certainly” caused by “an attack”.

Troadec said the lack of a live emergency alert suggested a “brutal event”.

He said: “A technical problem, a fire or a failed motor do not cause an instant accident, and the team has time to react.

“The team said nothing, they did not react, so it was very probably a brutal event and we can certainly think about an attack.

The airline said Flight MS804, an Airbus A320, was flying over the eastern Mediterranean at 37,000ft when it disappeared from radar.

Egyptair said passengers on board included 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, one Briton and others from Belgium, Algeria,  Sudan, Canada, Chad and Portugal.

The passenger count included three children.

EgyptAir flight vanishes - attack feared

BTN News
Thursday, 19 May 2016

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 56 passengers, seven crew and three security staff on board disappeared from radar on Thursday.

 

The Egyptian prime minister Sherif Ismail refused to rule out the possibility of an attack, saying he could not exclude any possibility.

But Jean-Paul Troadec, the former chief of France’s air accident investigation unit the BEA said the disappearance was “almost  certainly” caused by “an attack”.

Troadec said the lack of a live emergency alert suggested a “brutal event”.

He said: “A technical problem, a fire or a failed motor do not cause an instant accident, and the team has time to react.

“The team said nothing, they did not react, so it was very probably a brutal event and we can certainly think about an attack.

The airline said Flight MS804, an Airbus A320, was flying over the eastern Mediterranean at 37,000ft when it disappeared from radar.

Egyptair said passengers on board included 30 Egyptians, 15 French citizens, one Briton and others from Belgium, Algeria,  Sudan, Canada, Chad and Portugal.

The passenger count included three children.