BREAKING: #EgyptAir Flight heading from Paris to Cairo with 66 people onboard Crashes

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EgyptAir Crashes
JUST IN: Officials confirm missing #EgyptAir flight with 66 people onboard has crashed.

The Airbus (AIR.PA) A320 aircraft flying from Paris to Cairo went missing on Thursday, disappearing from radar over the Mediterranean Sea, EgyptAir said earlier.

Rescue services from the Egyptian armed forces reported receiving a distress signal at 04:26 am local time from the EgyptAir plane, an official from the airline said in a statement.

The Airbus 320 disappeared from Egyptian air space almost two hours earlier, at 02:30 am, some 280 kms from the Egyptian coastline, according to EgyptAir. It had been due to land at 03:15 a.m. No further details were provided as to the nature of the distress signal.

Greek air traffic controllers spoke to the pilot over the island of Kea, in what was thought to be the last broadcast from the aircraft. “The pilot did not mention any problems,” Kostas Litzerakis, head of Greece’s civil aviation department told Reuters. It exited Greek airspace at 3.27 am local time and entered Cairo airspace. Two minutes later it vanished from Greek radars, Litzerakis said.




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