Before the meeting of foreign ministers of the Covenant Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said that if interested parties will turn to NATO for help, the Alliance is ready to provide such assistance.
Jens Stoltenberg condolences to everyone affected by the tragedy and the government of Egypt and France.
The night disappeared from radar
Flying from Paris to Cairo EgyptAir passenger plane disappeared from radar during a flight over the Mediterranean basin. The machine is being sought by rescue teams of the Egyptian civil aviation, as well as Greek units.
Airbus A320 took off from Paris Roissy Charles de Gaulle 23:09, almost 20 minutes late. The plane was flying at an altitude of 37,000 feet, which is more than 11,000 meters, when he entered the Egyptian airspace. A moment later disappeared from radar. The time was 2:45.
According to the airline EgyptAir on your Twitter profile, flight number MS804 disappeared after about 16 km from the entry in the airspace of Egypt.
On board were security agents
The Egyptian authorities say that among the passengers was 30 Egyptian citizens, 15 French and one Briton. According to the airlines there were also nationals of Belgium, Canada, Algeria, Portugal, Chad, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan (one person), and two Iraqis. How informed the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, on board there were Poles.
EgyptAir also shows that among the passengers were two babies and one older child.
The company also informs about the pilots: by airline chief pilot flew for 6,275 hours, including 2,000 at the controls of the Airbus A320, the second pilot has 2,766 hours of work experience, and the machine was manufactured in 2003.
We also know that the crew consisted of three security agents, who had to watch over the safety of the passengers.
“The plane crashed” near the island of Karpathos?
Greek air services report that the missing plane EgyptAir crashed near the Greek island of Karpathos – such information shall AFP. According to her machine fell into the sea near the island of Karpathos, lies between Crete and Rhodes. The causes of the crash are not known.
The agency AP also reports citing Egyptian aviation officials, but without specifying the place of the event that the machine is broke. Ministry spokesman Ihab aviation Raslan rated before that the machine probably fell into the sea.
Reuters, in turn, quotes the Egyptian resort of aviation, says too early to confirm that the machine is shattered.
The Egyptian authorities announced that the area of the disappearance of the Airbus sent military aircraft; own search and rescue teams also sent to the carrier. As reported, the Minister of Civil Aviation Sherif Fathi interrupted a visit to Saudi Arabia and is on his way to Cairo.
France does not exclude a terrorist attack
It is not known whether it was a machine failure or terrorist attack, for example, do not exclude French experts. In Paris, it is emphasized that the lines have EgyptAir planes, which are in very good condition. Attention is drawn to the fact that the chief pilot had to his credit a number of hours spent in the air.
President Francois Hollande convene an emergency meeting of the government. Prime Minister Manuel Valls asks due to respect the feelings of families of the victims of any restraint in assessing the reasons that could cause a catastrophe. Despite the presence of three security guards on board is excluded bombing by an employee at the airport Roissy Charles de Gaulle airport, where the plane took off.
“SOS signal”, “ball of fire”
In the media there are numerous reports of zaginęcia, many of which are conflicting with each other. According to some sources, the Egyptian army was to receive a distress signal from the plane two hours after it disappeared from radar. The army denied this information. In turn, the passengers of a Greek ship in the Mediterranean Sea were seen in the sky fireball.
Loud air events over Egypt
In October last year, the aircraft of Russian airlines Metrojet crashed in the Sinai; They are killing all 224 people on board. Russia and Western governments say that the cause of the crash was probably a bomb, a jihadist group Islamic State (IS) announced that przemyciło an explosive device on board the machine.
In March of this year. EgyptAir plane flying from Alexandria to Cairo was kidnapped and forced to land in Cyprus by a man who – as reported authorities – the authorities wore a dummy belt Shahid and was mentally unbalanced. The perpetrator was arrested.
EgyptAir has a fleet of 57 Airbus and Boeing, including 15 Airbus A320s. The last tragic accident involving machines that carrier took place in May 2002, when a Boeing 737 crashed on the hill, approaching to land at the airport in the Tunisian Carthage. Killed 14 people.
Agents recall that in 1999, EgyptAir plane crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off the east coast of the United States, killing all 217 people on board. In the published report, investigators later determined that the co-pilot deliberately switched off the automatic control and the plane came down, but the Egyptian authorities claim that the cause was a technical failure
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