Egypt Air Flight Traveling from Paris to Cairo Disappeared From Radar

[Mike K]

(CNN)An EgyptAir flight heading from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the airline tweeted.

Tweet:

EGYPTAIR ‏@EGYPTAIR 15m15 minutes ago
An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/egyptair-flight-disappears/index.html

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[Chester Copperpot]

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[Mike K]

Plane is an Airbus A320.

 

[Marko]

Initial reports. 59 passengers 10 crew members

 

[Mike K]

Looks like it was at cruising altitude when they lost track of it.

 

[VenomousDSG]

Another one........

 

[Primalzer]

 

[Blood on Blood]

Godzilla

 

[BrianG]

Yep. Never leaving North Merika.

 

[MrMezger996]

How is this possible???

 

[Pressure Ratio]

"Update 5:20am: Speaking to Reuters, an anonymous senior aviation source has explained that:

“The theory that the plane crashed and fell is now confirmed after the preliminary search and after it did not arrive at any of the nearby airports.

“All causes for the disaster are open, whether it is a major technical fault or a terrorist action or any other circumstance. This will be ascertained when we inspect the plane’s wreckage and transcribe its black boxes.”

"Update 7:43am: The Guardian reports that Greek defence sources tell it that the aircraft was seen to behave erratically during a two minute period, between 03:27 to 03:29 local time:

It was in this two minute period when the plane made a 90 degree swerve left and dropped from 37,000 feet to 15,000 feet before swerving 60 degrees right and vanishing at 10,000 feet ten to 15 miles inside Egyptian air space.
We’ll update this post throughout the morning as more details emerge."


http://gizmodo.com/an-airplane-has-...source=gizmodo_facebook&utm_medium=socialflow

 

[syP]

WELP, im driving from now on.

 

[FESTER665]

Sounds like ISIS trying to get a plane in Egyptian airspace to me....

 

[nytebyte]

Yep, the religion of peace might have struck again.

 

[Primalzer]

An EgyptAir passenger jet carrying 66 people from Paris to Cairo disappeared over the Aeagen Sea, in Egyptian airspace, early Thursday morning. President François Hollande confirmed that the plane had crashed. Paris prosecutors have reportedly opened an investigation.

“The information that we have been able to gather—the prime minister, the members of the government, and of course the Egyptian authorities—unfortunately confirm for us that this plane crashed at sea and has been lost,” Hollande said on Thursday, after speaking with the Egyptian president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, by phone. French, Egyptian, and Greek rescue workers are searching for “debris that would enable us to know the truth.”

“When we have the truth, we must draw all the conclusions, whether it is an accident or another hypothesis, which everybody has in mind, the terrorist hypothesis,” Hollande said.

Greece’s defense minister, Panos Jammenos, said the plane—which was on its fifth flight in 24 hours—swerved abruptly before disappearing from radar. “The plane carried out a 90-degree turn to the left and a 360-degree turn to the right, falling from 37,000 to 15,000 feet and the signal was lost at around 10,000 feet,” he told reporters.

The Greek civil aviation department issued a timeline of the plane’s final moments. From the Guardian:

02:24: EgyptAir flight 804 from Paris to Cairo enters Greek airspace, air traffic controller permissions it for the remainder of its course.

02:48: The flight is transferred to the next air traffic control sector and is cleared for exit from Greek airspace. “The pilot was in good spirits and thanked the controller in Greek.”

03:27: Athens air traffic control tries to contact the aircraft to convey information on the switch of communications and control from Athens to Cairo air traffic. In spite of repeated calls, the aircraft does not respond, whereupon the air traffic controller calls the distress frequency, without a response from the aircraft.

03:29: It is above the exit point (from Greek airspace).

03:39:40: The aircraft signal is lost, approximately 7 nautical miles south/southeast of the KUMBI point, within Cairo FIR.

Immediately the assistance of radars of the Hellenic Air Force is requested to detect the target, without result.

03:45: The processes of search and rescue are initiated, simultaneously informing the Flight Information Region of Cairo.

A merchant ship’s captain thought to have been in the area of the crash reportedly told Greek authorities that he had seen a “flame in the sky” around the time of the crash.

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[Turk]

Probably workplace violence. Or at least that's what Obama will call it.

 

[Marko]

I don't plan on flying anytime soon. The TSA lines are ridiculously long and now this

 

[Gone_2022]

TSA brought down the plane to justify the long lines and more security.

I'm kidding obviously but this really could not have come at a better time for them with all the hate they are receiving.

 

[Intel]

TSA brought down the plane to justify the long lines and more security.

I'm kidding obviously but this really could not have come at a better time for them with all the hate they are receiving.

Not sure how this relates given this wasn't in America.. and given the rise in line lengths is staffing issues on their part and not keeping things safer.

 

[Gone_2022]

Not sure how this relates given this wasn't in America.. and given the rise in line lengths is staffing issues on their part and not keeping things safer.

Again it wasn't meant to be serious. Also planes travel all over the world. Leaving the US entering the US. The TSA handles more than just American domestic flights as you know

 

[Yaj Yak]

that's a fucked up "joke"

 

[Jean Ralphio]

 

[radioguy6]

reports say they found life jackets and other debris floating.

 

[Jean Ralphio]

4. Flight MS 804 was the plane’s fifth trip of the day. Before it crashed, the plane had stopped in three cities aside from Paris: Cairo, the Eritrean capital of Asmara and the Tunisian city of Carthage. It left Asmara at 2:13 a.m. on Wednesday morning, headed to Cairo, and then at 6:20 a.m. flew to Carthage, the airport site for Tunisia’s capital Tunis, before returning to Cairo again. Then it headed to Paris, before turning around on the final, doomed Flight MS 804.

 

[Gone_2022]

There is pretty much no doubt this was terror or some sort of major explosion. As many of the experts have already said, a plane at cruising altitude on a clear night does not just fall out of the sky. Plane technology is incredibly safe and tested.