Satellite images indicate no explosion on board the Airbus Egyptian – BBC

Those denouncing for Reuters, who wanted to remain anonymous, recommended to carefully approach to media reports, allegedly United States They believed that the disaster caused an explosion on board the machine. They added also that the US does not rule out any possible cause of this tragic event, including technical failure, terrorist act or intention on the part of the pilot or crew.

Earlier, the US Department of Defense stressed that so far there is no indication that the on board an EgyptAir plane exploded.

Another view is Minister of Civil Aviation of Egypt, who said that the more likely cause of loss of flying from Paris to Cairo aircraft is a terrorist attack than a technical failure.

In the southern Mediterranean, intensive exploration of the wreck of the machine. The action involved the Greek and Egyptian military units – airplanes, helicopters and frigates.

The search turned up a plane of the French Navy. Discovered in the afternoon plastic parts they do not belong, however, to the Lost machine. He informed the head of the Flight Safety Committee Greece Atanasios Binis, as well as representatives of EgyptAir.

Egypt in the last hours came investigators from France, who are helping in the investigation. Already flown to Cairo, some families of French passengers missing Airbus.

66 people on board

Airbus performing the flight MS804 took the chair. 23.09 Wednesday from Roissy-Charles de Gaulle in Paris and in accordance with the plan he had landed in Cairo at. 3.15. At. 2.30 The plane disappeared from radar.

On board the Airbus were 66 people: 56 passengers, including three children and seven crew members and three representatives of the carrier responsible for the safety.

Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos announced that Airbus has done in the Egyptian airspace two phrases, and then suddenly began to fall, and disappeared from radar screens.

The machine went missing in the area between the Greek islands and the coast of Egypt, near Karpathos. The crew did not send an alarm signal. None of the located in the vicinity of ships or Greek border police have not confirmed the information that the sky was visible fireball.