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(Original title too long, at "BREAKING: The Captain Of Flight MS804 Is A Muslim Linked To Major Muslim Terrorist Involved In Killing Americans In Benghazi) So look what we have here. Amr Khaled is a well known Muslim Brotherhood Jihadi of the first class known in Egypt. And what do we know. Look here. He shares his friendship and old photos on that flight with the captain of the crashed Egyptian flight MS804, Mohammed Said Shaker/Shukeir. Amr Khaled: “I was with Captain Ahmad Shukeir in the plane that is missing in one of my journeys. He is the kindest of...

Donald Trump is firing back at Hillary Clinton for saying his proposal to temporarily ban Muslims from entering the U.S. promotes terrorism. “The fact that Hillary thinks the temporary Muslim ban, which she calls the ‘Muslim ban’, promotes terrorism, proves Bernie Sanders was correct when he said she is not qualified to be President,” the presumptive Republican presidential nominee's campaign said in a statement on Thursday

The Egyptian military found wreckage including seats and luggage Friday from the EgyptAir plane that crashed in the Mediterranean, as investigators tried to unravel the mystery of why it swerved and plummeted into the sea. Search teams spotted personal belongings of passengers and parts of the Airbus A320 about 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Egypt's coastal city of Alexandria, the army said. The country's aviation minister has said a "terrorist attack" was a more likely cause than technical failure for the plane's disappearance on a flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 people on board.

Donald Trump suggested that the disappearance of EgyptAir Flight 804 was “another terrorist attack” Thursday morning, noting the flight’s departure from Paris, which has been the target of terrorist attacks in the last year. Looks like yet another terrorist attack. Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 19, 2016

After a decade of political turmoil and the downing of a holiday jet last year, tourism in Egypt was left in a desperate state - so will the MS804 tragedy sound the death knell for the industry? Figures from February this year show that visitor numbers to Egypt practically halved and the average number of nights spent in the country is down by 67.2 per cent compared to 2015. The country's tourism industry, says one expert, is now one disaster away from being finished altogether.

The Egyptian military said Friday that it had located wreckage from EgyptAir flight 804 in the Mediterranean Sea. Egyptian army spokesman Brig. Gen. Mohammed Samir said in a statement posted on his Facebook page that Egyptian jets and naval vessels found "personal belongings of the passengers and parts of the plane debris," 180 miles north of the Egyptian port city of Alexandria. Searchers had been looking at a wide area south of the Greek island of Crete for the Airbus A320, which was nearing the end of its scheduled flight from Paris to Cairo early Thursday when contact was lost....

The Egyptian military says it has found parts of debris from missing EgyptAir flight MS804, 290 kilometres north of the Mediterranean coastal city of Alexandria. ...

In an apparent incredible coincidence there are exactly 804 days between the two flights vanishing - the same call sign as the jet in the latest disappearance ...

10:08am Personal belongings found - Egyptian military "Egyptian aircraft and navy vessels have found personal belongings of passengers and parts of the wreckage 290 kilometres (180 miles) north of Alexandria," a spokesman for the Egyptian military has said.

An EgyptAir flight carrying 66 people crashed while en route from Paris to Cairo on Thursday, and a top Egyptian official said it was more likely the jet was downed by a terror attack than a technical malfunction, NBC News reported. According to an EgyptAir Facebook post, debris from the plane has been found in the Mediterranean Sea near the Greek island of Karpathos. A senior U.S. intelligence official familiar with the U.S. capabilities in the region told NBC News the cause of the crash remains unclear, but infrared and multispectral imagers indicate strongly there was an explosion on the...

The Latest: Greece: Debris Found in Sea Is Not From a Plane By The Associated Press CAIRO — May 19, 2016, 3:01 PM ET The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete (all times local): 8:55 p.m. A senior Greek air safety official says the debris found so far in the Mediterranean Sea does not belong to an aircraft. An EgyptAir Airbus A320 crashed into the Mediterranean Sea early Thursday while carrying 66 passengers and crew from...

CAIRO (AP) — The latest news on EgyptAir Flight 804 from Paris to Cairo, carrying 66 people, which Egyptian officials say crashed early Thursday into the Mediterranean Sea off the Greek island of Crete (all times local): 8:55 p.m. A senior Greek air safety official says the debris found so far in the Mediterranean Sea does not belong to an aircraft.

EgyptAir Flight MS804 has disappeared from radar during a flight from Paris to the Egyptian capital of Cairo, the airline says. At least 69 people were on board. (more) EgyptAir said in a brief statement that Flight 804, a Boeing 737-800 aircraft, left Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport on late Wednesday evening and was due to arrive at Cairo International Airport on early Thursday morning. Its fate is unknown.

EgyptAir flight MS804 from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar early Thursday morning. Egyptian officials believe that the a mid-air explosion cause the plane to crash into the Mediterranean. Egypt's Sherif Ismail said that all possible causes of the explosion were being examined - including terrorism. .....

The head of France's internal intelligence agency had warned the country was being 'clearly targeted' by ISIS a week before the Paris to Cairo flight took off. EgyptAir Flight MS804 has gone missing over the Mediterranean with 66 people on board amid reports of a merchant ship captain having seen a 'flame in the sky'. An Egyptian civil aviation authority spokesman has said the plane, with 15 French passengers and one Briton on board - most likely crashed into the sea. The cause of the disaster remains unknown but it comes seven months after a bomb blew up a Russian...

A Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight that went down in the Mediterranean Sea with 66 aboard early Thursday hours after departing from Paris zig-zagged sharply before plunging, according to aviation officials, who said terrorism was a more likely cause of the crash than technical failure. Government officials from France, Greece and Egypt spoke at separate news conferences even as boats and ships from several countries were scouring the waters off of the Greek island of Karpathos, near where a witness reported seeing a fireball in the sky. By midday Thursday, an Egyptian plane spotted two orange items believed to be from the...

Islamic State militants statement claims bomb downed EgyptAir from Paris Statement by Islamic State militants claims the group was behind the downing of Egyptian passenger plane from French capital Paris that was pounded for Egypt’s Cairo. The jihadist group claims bomb inside plane caused explosion that crashed plane. It’s believed all those on board might have died. French authorities said earlier the plane crashed in southern Mediterranean and later remnants was found near Greek island.

Presumptive GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump quickly concluded the disappearance of EgyptAir Flight 804 to be an act of terror on Thursday. “Looks like yet another terrorist attack,” Trump tweeted. “Airplane departed from Paris. When will we get tough, smart and vigilant? Great hate and sickness!” Egyptian authorities said Thursday morning it’s too early to call the plane’s disappearance an act of terror – but Civil Aviation Minister Sherif Fathi acknowledged that terror is a “stronger” possibility than technical failure.

A Cairo-bound EgyptAir flight that went down in the Mediterranean Sea with 66 aboard early Thursday hours after departing from Paris zig-zagged sharply before plunging, according to aviation officials, who said terrorism was a likely cause of the crash.

Athens (AFP) – The pilot of an EgyptAir flight that vanished over the eastern Mediterranean early Thursday with 66 people on board, had “not mentioned a problem” in his final contact, the Greek civil aviation said.