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EgyptAir plane goes missing over Mediterranean
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Egypt Air plane has gone missing over the Mediterranean Sea. Above, the
plane's flight path. (Flight Radar 24). BY Christopher Brennan.
EgyptAir plane goes missing over Mediterranean
An Egypt Air plane has gone missing over the Mediterranean Sea. Above, the plane's flight path.
(Flight Radar 24)The airline confirmed on Facebook that Flight MS804 had disappeared from radar.
Maps from FlightRadar24.com show the flight heading out from Charles de Gaulle before vanishing in the Mediterranean during its approach to Egypt.
The plane, said to be carrying 59 passengers and 10 crew, normally arrives in Cairo shortly before 3 a.m. local time, but EgyptAir said that contact was lost with it at 2:45 a.m..
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EgyptAir said it was flying at 37,000ft before disappearing shortly after entering Egyptian airspace.
By 5:30 in Cairo there was still no word about what exactly happened to the aircraft.
The U.S. State Department told the Daily News that it is looking for more information about whether any Americans are aboard.
The disappearance follows an Egypt Air hijacking in March. Above, a stock photo of a plane from the airline.
(KHALED DESOUKI/AFP/Getty Images)Seif Eldin Mustafa, 58, said he made the vessel stop in Cyprus in an attempt to see his ex-wife on the island.
No one was injured in that incident, and Mustafa is facing extradition back to Egypt.
In late October 224 people, mostly tourists, were killed aboard a Russian plane leaving the country's Sinai Peninsula.
Islamic State militants later claimed responsibility and said it brought the flight down with a bomb.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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