Wreckage of missing EgyptAir Flight MS804 has been found.
“We have found the wreckage,” Vice President Ahmed Adel told CNN Thursday afternoon. “There are so many reasons why a plane can fall from the sky and crash. We have no explanations at this state. We need more investigation.”
After the interview, EgyptAir posted on Facebook that it found the wreckage near Karpathos Island. The airline said it “sincerely conveys its deepest sorrows to the families and friends” of those on board.
The plane, on its way from Paris to Cairo, went missing over the Mediterranean Sea at 2:30 a.m. local time. On board were 66 people, including 30 Egyptians and 15 French nationals. Ten of them were crew members.
“[I]f you analyze the situation properly, the possibility of having a different action, or having a terror attack, is higher than the possibility of having a technical [fault],” Sherif Fathy, Egypt’s civil aviation minister, said Thursday.
No distress call was sent before it lost contact with radar roughly 170 miles off the Egyptian coast.
According to Greece’s defense minister, the plane “turned 90 degrees left and then a 360-degree turn to the right.”
It then dropped more than 25,000 feet before disappearing from radar, Panos Kammenos said.
