An EgyptAir flight traveling to Cairo from Paris has dropped off the radar, the airline confirmed Thursday morning.[/COLOR]
The airline posted on Twitter that Flight 804, an Airbus A320 with 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board, had vanished and a search and rescue effort was underway.
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An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.
10:57 AM - 19 May 2016
The airline said the flight was at its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet when it disappeared at 2:45 a.m. Cairo time (8:45 p.m. EDT). EgyptAir said the plane was approximately 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace.
The tracking website FlightAware showed the plane following its scheduled flight path before losing contact over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The aircraft had taken off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 11:09 p.m. Central European time (5:09 p.m. EDT) and was due to arrive in Cairo at 3:05 a.m. local time (9:05 p.m. EDT).
The airline posted on Twitter that Flight 804, an Airbus A320 with 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board, had vanished and a search and rescue effort was underway.
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EGYPTAIR ✔@EGYPTAIR
An informed source at EGYPTAIR stated that Flight no MS804,which departed Paris at 23:09 (CEST),heading to Cairo has disappeared from radar.
10:57 AM - 19 May 2016
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The airline said the flight was at its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet when it disappeared at 2:45 a.m. Cairo time (8:45 p.m. EDT). EgyptAir said the plane was approximately 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace.
The tracking website FlightAware showed the plane following its scheduled flight path before losing contact over the eastern Mediterranean Sea.
The aircraft had taken off from Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris at 11:09 p.m. Central European time (5:09 p.m. EDT) and was due to arrive in Cairo at 3:05 a.m. local time (9:05 p.m. EDT).
