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EgyptAir flight vanishes from sky with 69 passengers on board

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Search and rescue teams have been deployed to look for an EgyptAir flight which went missing 10 miles into Egyptian airspace.
Flight no MS804 was travelling from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris to Cairo, and took off at 11.09pm Central European Summer Time.
The airline said the A320 – with 59 passengers and 10 crew on board – lost contact at 02:45 local time, at an altitude of 37,000 feet.
In March, a domestic EgyptAir flight with 72 passengers on board had to make an emergency diversion to Larnaca, Cyprus, after an alleged hijacking.
In October 2015, 224 people were killed when a Russian aircraft crashed over Egypt’s Sinai Peninsula minutes after it took off from the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh.
Facts so far:
Flight MS804 was travelling from Paris to Cairo, and took off from Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris at 11.09pm local time.
The flight disappeared from radar around three and a half hours into its journey, shortly after leaving Greek airspace.
Egyptian Prime Minister Sherif Ismail said there was no “distress call” from the missing EgyptAir flight, but a “signal” was received from the plane.
EgyptAir said 56 passengers were on board, including two babies and a child. There were three airline security personnel and seven cabin crew – making a total of 66 people on board.
The airline has said there is one Briton, 30 Egyptians and 15 French among those on board.
Egyptian aviation officials have said they believe the plane probably crashed into the Mediterranean Sea.
The pilot had 6275 flight hours.
A site has been identified for a search and rescue operation, according to the airline.
Egypt’s president will chair a national security council meeting on Thursday morning.

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