http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/w...c=edit_na_20160519&nlid=59124248&ref=cta&_r=0
CAIRO — An EgyptAir passenger jet traveling to Cairo from Paris with 69 people on board disappeared over the Mediterranean early Thursday, the airline said on its Twitter account.
Flight MS804, an Airbus A320 jet, lost contact with radar systems over Greece at 2.45 a.m. Cairo time, 80 miles before it was scheduled to enter Egyptian airspace, EgyptAir said. It had taken off from Paris three hours and 40 minutes earlier.
The airline said the plane had been traveling at an altitude of 37,000 feet and was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew members. EgyptAir said it had alerted search and rescue teams and “all competent authorities,” and would update with further information as it became available.
Path of EgyptAir Flight 804
In another Twitter post, EgyptAir said the plane had been 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace when it disappeared.
Ehab Mohy el-Deen, the head of Egypt’s air navigation authority, said that Greek air traffic controllers notified their Egyptian counterparts that they had lost contact with the plane. “They did not radio for help or lose altitude. They just vanished,” he said.
He added that it was too early to speculate on the cause of the disappearance or the plane’s fate, “but this is not normal, of course.”
Further details about the flight were not immediately available early Thursday.
Last October, a Russian jetliner broke up in midair 23 minutes after takeoff from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.
In February, Egyptian authorities said that terrorists had brought down the Airbus A321-200, which was packed with Russian vacationers.
CAIRO — An EgyptAir passenger jet traveling to Cairo from Paris with 69 people on board disappeared over the Mediterranean early Thursday, the airline said on its Twitter account.
Flight MS804, an Airbus A320 jet, lost contact with radar systems over Greece at 2.45 a.m. Cairo time, 80 miles before it was scheduled to enter Egyptian airspace, EgyptAir said. It had taken off from Paris three hours and 40 minutes earlier.
The airline said the plane had been traveling at an altitude of 37,000 feet and was carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew members. EgyptAir said it had alerted search and rescue teams and “all competent authorities,” and would update with further information as it became available.
Path of EgyptAir Flight 804
In another Twitter post, EgyptAir said the plane had been 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace when it disappeared.
Ehab Mohy el-Deen, the head of Egypt’s air navigation authority, said that Greek air traffic controllers notified their Egyptian counterparts that they had lost contact with the plane. “They did not radio for help or lose altitude. They just vanished,” he said.
He added that it was too early to speculate on the cause of the disappearance or the plane’s fate, “but this is not normal, of course.”
Further details about the flight were not immediately available early Thursday.
Last October, a Russian jetliner broke up in midair 23 minutes after takeoff from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh, killing all 224 people on board.
In February, Egyptian authorities said that terrorists had brought down the Airbus A321-200, which was packed with Russian vacationers.
Wonder if it's common but then i remember the titanic
they still aint did shyt about the other one
