EgyptAir Flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo 'disappears from radar'

[xxMATTGxx]

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the Egyptian airline says.

It says there are 59 passengers and 10 crew members on board Flight MS804.

The aircraft was flying at 37,000ft (11,300m) when it went missing over the eastern Mediterranean. An official said the plane lost contact with radar at 02:45 Cairo time (00:45 GMT).

The company said it would issue an update "when more information becomes available".

Source: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36309492

[Lucy]

It has been a really rough few years for the airline industry, the news isn't looking good for this one either.

[GoldenMerc]

I still don't understand how planes can go invisible? How is that possible and why didn't they scramble jets to its last known location?

[Cerys]

A satellite image of the area it went missing shows that at the time it was clear, so chances of it being storm related are slim

Really doesn't sound good though I reckon we'll find out much sooner rather than later as the search area seems much more clearer than that of e.g mh370


My personal suspicion is that someone or something interfered in the cockpit to make the severe course changes like that

[xxMATTGxx]

I still don't understand how planes can go invisible? How is that possible and why didn't they scramble jets to its last known location?

Very easily - Picture it like this. A plane is at a high altitude, of let's say for this example: 37,000ft. Something happens and it falls out of the sky at a very fast rate. It hits the water, what happens? It doesn't stay on top of the water and float. It will sink or even be under water straight away.

Boom, you have lost a plane.

Plus, there isn't actual realtime, 24/7 tracking on board aircraft all over the world at this moment in time. Ever since MH370 went missing there has been lots of talks and decisions being made to get a system/systems going so there is better tracking of commercial flights all around the globe. But again, no one or even Airlines are in a rush to do this.

So the last known position if that specific plane didn't have any real time tracking on board would be from Air Traffic Control and their radar screens. This would then be given to the search and rescue teams and they will look around that area and expand - Just because it went missing from a certain position on the radar, doesn't mean it'll be there when they go looking for it.

A lot of the time when these crashes happen over water, they are found fairly quickly due to debris showing up on the surface. Unlike MH370 which was a unique case but that was due to the fact the plane didn't actually just crash straight away. It carried on flying etc etc but that's a whole different story.

[Cerys]

Lots of reports of debris being found 230 miles south south east of Crete, nothing that's been 100% confirmed yet though

Will be interesting to see if it was a planned terror event, Paris and Egypt have really been stuck in the middle of it recently

[AgnesIO]

The sharp turns are not a good sign. If the plane was going down, sharp turns would be the surefire way to destroy the plane - I'd have thought you'd want to try and keep it as level as possible if you wanted to try to avoid tragedy.

Having said that, nobody has yet claimed it if it is terrorism, which is a little odd.

[RyRy]

The sharp turns are not a good sign. If the plane was going down, sharp turns would be the surefire way to destroy the plane - I'd have thought you'd want to try and keep it as level as possible if you wanted to try to avoid tragedy.

Having said that, nobody has yet claimed it if it is terrorism, which is a little odd.

That's what is making me suspicious about it being a terrorist attack. Nobody has claimed it yet, nobody has said one of their "brothers" have died against the infidels or anything like that. It makes me think that if it was a terrorist attack, the people that did it were not on the plane and snuck something into the baggage hold (or something like that). Just speculating like everybody else though, even a technical fault these days would be suspicious given how rigorously planes are checked.

[Cerys]

Egyptair vice president tells CNN they found the wreckage

[xxMATTGxx]

As the above;

Wreckage of EgyptAir flight MS804 has been found near Greek island of Karpathos, Egyptian aviation officials confirm