The Airbus A320 had vanished 16 kilometres after it entered Egyptian airspace.
AB Wire
Egyptian aviation officials have confirmed that the EgyptAir plane flying from Paris to Cairo, which vanished with 66 people on board, has crashed in the Mediterranean Sea.
The Airbus A320 had vanished 16 kilometres after it entered Egyptian airspace.
According to reports, 26 foreigners including 15 French Citizens, two Iraqis, a Briton and a Canadian, were among the 56 passengers onboard the fateful flight.
“It is too early to say whether a technical problem or a terror attack caused the plane to crash†Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said.
EgyptAir also said that the cause of the disappearance of the flight was still unclear.
A Greek aviation official told to AFP news agency that the airline crashed in a location around 130 nautical miles off the southern Greek island of Karpathos, although this has not been confirmed, BBC reports.
“No theory can be ruled out to explain plane’s disappearance,†French Prime Minister Manuel Valls said.
In March, an EgyptAir plane was hijacked and diverted to Cyprus. The attacker later surrendered and all hostages were released.
Last October, a Russian airliner flying home holidaymakers from the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheikh was downed by Islamic State jihadist group, which killed all 224 people on the board.