The remains of the ships encountered the Greek Navy.
On board the Airbus A320 flying from Paris to Cairo were 56 passengers and 10 crew members. Among the passengers were 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis and one national of the United Kingdom, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria and Canada. On board were three children.
Greek Defence Ministry reported that in the morning local time machine was located south of the islands of Karpathos and Kassos. Then, Airbus had suddenly change the direction of flight – first turned about 90 degrees to the left, then made a full turn to the right. Later he began to fall from a height of 11 km. At an altitude of 3 km control tower lost contact with the crew.
Greek civil aviation authorities reported that during the last contact EgyptAir pilots with air traffic control, they were in good spirits and did not report any problems. The next time you contact before the hour. 2.30 in order to transfer the machine to the area of responsibility Cairo crew “did not respond despite repeated calls.”
The European Organisation for. Safety of Air Navigation, Eurocontrol submitted that no weather problems did not occur at the time of the disappearance of the plane or in the vicinity of his last known position.
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“This was an attack?”
Egyptian Minister of civil aviation said on Thursday that a more likely cause of the disappearance of passenger aircraft EgyptAir is a terrorist attack than a technical failure.
in turn, the head of the Russian Federal Security Service (FSB) Alexander Bortnikov expressed on Thursday the opinion that the reason crash passenger aircraft EgyptAir flying from Paris to Cairo was “in all probability” terrorist attack.
Bortnikov, who attended the Minsk meeting of the heads of the special services of post-Soviet Commonwealth of Independent States, urged European partners Russia to cooperate in order to identify the perpetrators of the attack.
Each version is possible
French President Francois Hollande said on Thursday that the flowing information confirms that, flying from Paris to Cairo airliner EgyptAir, which disappeared from the radar, “crashed and was executed.” He added that he does not exclude any hypothesis.
He stressed that everything must be done to “know the cause of what happened,” whether it is “an accident, or another hypothesis, perhaps a terrorist.” The French president assured solidarity with the families of the victims.
Earlier, the Paris prosecutor’s office announced the initiation of an investigation, which was passed gendarmerie.
NATO ready to help
the Polish Foreign Ministry initially confirmed that the plane was not Poles. Embassy in Cairo will monitor the developments – said the director of the Office of the Spokesman of the Foreign Ministry Rafal Sobczak.
The Egyptian authorities and the French have made each other condolences.
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a possible NATO involvement in the Egyptian plane did not rule out NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg. – We will monitor the situation very carefully. If NATO receives a request for help, then we will be ready to help – said Stoltenberg on Thursday, when asked, do you envisage any assistance for Egypt.
The disappearance of the plane revived concerns about security – writes AP. In October last year, the aircraft of Russian airlines Metrojet crashed in the Sinai; They are killing all 224 people on board. Russia and the Western governments believe that the cause of the crash was probably a bomb, a jihadist group Islamic State (IS) claims that przemyciło an explosive device on board the machine.
” Group Province Sinai should crash of Russian Airbus’
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 authorities said – 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. US investigators have established that the co-pilot deliberately switched off the automatic control and the plane came down, the Egyptian authorities, however, argue that the cause was a technical failure.
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