Egypt Air plane goes missing over Mediterranean

[Elixer]

An EgyptAir flight traveling to Cairo from Paris has dropped off the radar, the airline confirmed Thursday morning.

The airline posted on Twitter that Flight 804, a Boeing 737 with 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board had vanished.
The airline said the flight was at its cruising altitude of 37,000 feet when it disappeared at 2:45 a.m. Cairo time (8:45 p.m. EDT). EgyptAir said the plane was approximately 10 miles inside Egyptian airspace.

The tracking website FlightAware showed the plane following its scheduled flight path before losing contact over the eastern Mediterranean Sea

http://flightaware.com/live/flight/MSR804

 

[John Connor]

Doesn't look to me like this would be weather or mechanical. Give it's location the probability of terrorism is quite high.

What do you wanna make a bet it's the same type of bomb used in that Russian plane?

 

[master_shake_]

i'm not saying it was aliens.

it was aliens.

how can it just disappear?

did they toss the transponder out the window?

did it land and people didn't notice it?

was there a sudden descent?

 

[John Connor]

They just say this to say the aircraft no longer shows up on radar, i.e it went down.

 

[John Connor]

Odd that the speed goes up. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms804/#9c0b766

Also, Flightradar says this is an A320 as well as Fox.

 

[John Connor]

I hope they had primary radar here. Be interesting to see if it still showed up after ADS-B disappeared.

 

[Away]

Communication from Greek Air Traffic Controllers to Egyptian Air Traffic Controllers per New York Times:

"They did not radio for help, or lose altitude. They just vanished."

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Odd that the speed goes up. https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms804/#9c0b766

Also, Flightradar says this is an A320 as well as Fox.

That could just be a change in windspeed high up, as that increase is in groundspeed. The plane may have not actually changed speed much if at all.

Doesn't look to me like this would be weather or mechanical. Give it's location the probability of terrorism is quite high.

What do you wanna make a bet it's the same type of bomb used in that Russian plane?

My bets are on mechanical failure. Only 66 people on a plane designed for 150-180.

News is on it crashing into the sea, so that speed increase may have been something.

 

[DigDog]

transponder stops transponding mid-flight. . .

 

[Bubbleawsome]

Military received a distress call from the plane before it went down.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Military received a distress call from the plane before it went down.

They're saying they did not receive a distress call.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36309492

There was some confusion over whether a distress signal was sent by the plane.
Egypt's state-run newspaper al-Ahram quoted an EgyptAir statement as saying the Egyptian army's rescue and search had received a distress call from the plane at 04:26 local time - which would be around two hours after the flight disappeared.
But the Egypt's military subsequently said that no such signal was received.

 

[Kaido]

French President Francois Hollande says he's told flight crashed:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/18/middleeast/egyptair-flight-disappears/index.html

Although investigators are still trying to figure out what happened, French President Francois Hollande said he had been told the flight crashed.

 

[Kaido]

ReutersAerospaceNews:

Greek defence min: Picture we have at moment on missing #EgyptAir aircraft is it was in Egypt airspace at 37,000 feet, made sudden swerves

https://twitter.com/ReutersAero/status/733247913187508224?ref_src=twsrc^tfw

 

[slayer202]

https://twitter.com/MattNegrin/status/733134740841213952

 

[NoTine42]

Also from @ReutersAero

Greek ATC say calls to pilot went unanswered over Greek airspace before it disappeared off radar in Egyptian space:

 

[amdhunter]

This is why we need more TSA checks. I bet the TSA were so hung up on getting passengers through slightly quicker - and they let a terrist in.

 

[JulesMaximus]

This is why we need more TSA checks. I bet the TSA were so hung up on getting passengers through slightly quicker - and they let a terrist in.

Um, the flight originated in Paris.

 

[Pardus]

Not a good sign.

When the plane reached Cairo airspace, it swerved sharply then plunged from 37,000 feet into the Mediterranean, Greece says.

 

[Linflas]

Um, the flight originated in Cairo.

Actually Paris but your point still stands.

 

[nakedfrog]

Um, the flight originated in Cairo.

That's no excuse for them to not do their job

 

[angminas]

terrist

Someone who fights for the rights of dirt?

 

[Fingolfin269]

That's no excuse for them to not do their job

I think you're still missing the point...

 

[runzwithsizorz]

That's no excuse for them to not do their job

Ever been though Paris airport security\customs? I have, and can tell you they are pretty thorough, AND can, and do profile! FAR more efficient, and better trained than the TSA.

 

[Kaido]

They're saying it's most likely due to a terror attack. They found some debris already

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/733297105184395264

https://twitter.com/Conflicts/status/733298236732112896

 

[feralkid]

This is why we need more TSA checks. I bet the TSA were so hung up on getting passengers through slightly quicker - and they let a terrist in.

Paris to Cairo flight.



TSA.



Think about that for a minute.