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Pieces of luggage, human remains, wreckage and what could be a tell-tale oil slick were found early Friday in the Mediterranean Sea where an EgyptAir passenger plane went down a day earlier, according to officials. The first physical clues to the crash of Flight 804, which carried 66 passengers, crew and security officers, surfaced about 190 miles off the coast of the Egyptian city of Alexandria. Reports of debris being found on Thursday proved false, but the verified debris field could bring authorities closer to the all-important flight data recorder, which could provide insight into what caused the crash. An...

(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...

EgyptAir flight attendant posted picture on Facebook of plane crashing a year before she died in flight MS804What a coincidence. Might Samar Ezz Eldin have been part of a jihad cell that worked to take down the plane? The possibility cannot be dismissed out of hand. “EgyptAir cabin crew posted picture of plane crashing on Facebook year before tragic flight MS804,” by Simon Robb, Metro.co.uk, May 20, 2016: A flight attendant on the tragic EgyptAir flight MS804 had posted a picture of a plane crashing, months after she got a job with the airline. Samar Ezz Eldin, 27, uploaded...

Complete Headline: Missing EgyptAir 804 plane crash: Flight stewardess feared dead posted bizarre Facebook image of jet crashing into sea A flight stewardess feared dead after an EgyptAir jet crashed into the Mediterranean posted this bizarre image of a plane crash on her Facebook page. The image appears to show a female flight attendant emerging from the sea with the wreckage of a plane crash behind her. It was shared by Samar Ezz Eldin who is thought to have been one of the crew members onboard the doomed airliner. Experts fear it crashed into the sea while travelling from Paris...

Data transmitted from a doomed EgyptAir flight minutes before it fell off radar screens suggests a fire had broken out on board the plane, according to an aviation industry website. AvHerald.com is reporting that data transmissions from EgyptAir Flight 804 to ground stations show smoke was detected in a bathroom near the cockpit. The report includes the plane-to-ground messages sent in the final minutes of the flight: 00:26Z 2600 SMOKE LAVATORY SMOKE 00:27Z 2600 AVIONICS SMOKE 00:28Z 561100 R FIXED WINDOW SENSOR 00:29Z 2200 AUTO FLT FCU 2 FAULT 00:29Z 2700 F/CTL SEC 3 FAULT The information would suggest the...

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.

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....

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.

An EgyptAir flight heading from Paris to Cairo has disappeared from radar, the airline tweeted.

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 ...

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. ...