Still a lot of uncertainty about missing Airbus

The crew of the Airbus did not, as is usual, logged out when she left Greek airspace. That the head of the Greek civil aviation authority for Greek news channel Skai said.

When they flew over over the island of Kea in Athens, they have typically been reported and said nothing about problems, said Konstantinos Lintzarakis.

The machine continued his flight to Egypt, but when she South of the Greek island of Karpathos and Southeast of Crete left Greek airspace, reported the pilots is not turned away. The unit then disappeared from the radar.

Airbus has in a Facebookbericht will be shown compassion to the families of the passengers. Also gives the maker of the missing device information on the year of construction and number of flight hours and promises to cooperate in technical research when the wreck was found.

The unit would be 130 miles from the Greek island of Karpathos are crashed, French media report. Officially, there is still no confirmation that Airbus actually crashed. It is striking that reported that the unit would be crashed in Greek airspace, while previously said was that the unit several minutes before it disappeared from the radar the Egyptian airspace was flown.

The Egyptian Ministry of Defense denies now in an official statement that there is an emergency signal has been received, reports Reuters news agency. Also reports that flight MS804 crashed, are premature, let the Aviation Ministry in the country know.

On the question of whether there could be a terrorist attack, said Ismael know nothing from. In doing so, he says the same as the French Prime Minister Manuel Valls earlier Thursday.

NO DUTCH PEOPLE on board the EgyptAir Airbus 320 disappeared were not Dutch. This is evident from data that the airline has brought out Thursday morning. Among the 56 passengers, 30 Egyptians and fifteen Frenchmen. The other passengers come under more from Belgium, Britain, Canada, Portugal and Iraq.

The Airbus 320 with flight number RADAR MS804 was something about 23:00 Wednesday evening at left from the airport Charles de Gaulle in Paris and was on his way to the Egyptian capital Cairo.

Two hours after it disappeared radar gear. According to EgyptAir would the unit just the Egyptian airspace are flown in when it between Crete, Cyprus and the Egyptian North Coast disappeared. The plane flew at an altitude of more than 11 kilometers. Around 02.45 pm (local time), the Airbus of the radar.

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