Egyptian plane crashes with 66 people on board

An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after a mysterious series of extremely abrupt turns, authorities said, and Egypt’s aviation minister said it may have been a terrorist attack. There were no immediate signs of any survivors. EgyptAir […]

An EgyptAir jetliner bound from Paris to Cairo with 56 passengers and 10 crew members on board crashed in the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday after a mysterious series of extremely abrupt turns, authorities said, and Egypt’s aviation minister said it may have been a terrorist attack.
There were no immediate signs of any survivors.
EgyptAir Flight 804, an Airbus A320, went down about halfway between the Greek island of Crete and Egypt’s northern coastline after takeoff from Charles de Gaulle Airport, authorities said.
Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said the plane spun all the way around and suddenly lost altitude just before vanishing from radar screens around 2:45 a.m. Egyptian time.
In Cairo, Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi cautioned that the disaster is still under investigation. But he said the possibility it was a terror attack “is higher than the possibility of having a technical failure.”
Egyptian aviation officials have confirmed that the wreckage of the plane has been found south of the Greek island of Karpathos.