Search for missing plane EgyptAir

- The Mediterranean Sea between Greece and Egypt on Thursday a massive search began for a passenger plane from EgyptAir, that on the night of Wednesday to Thursday disappeared during a flight from Paris to Cairo.

On board the Airbus A320 there were 56 passengers and ten crew members. Among the passengers are Egyptians thirty and fifteen French. The other passengers are among others from Belgium, Britain, Portugal, Canada and Iraq. On the passenger list were not Dutch.

The device disappeared from radar shortly after the Egyptian airspace was flown at an altitude of over 11 kilometers. The captain of a merchant ship saw according to a source at the Greek Ministry of Defense about 275 kilometers south of the island of Karpathos,, a flame in the sky. ' Greece has two military aircraft and a frigate deployed to help search for the plane.
  
    
     
      
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French President Francois Hollande held a telephone conversation with his Egyptian counterpart Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi. They agreed to cooperate closely in order to establish the circumstances surrounding the disappearance, so left the Elysee know Thursday. To 08. 30 pm French ministers hold emergency meeting in Paris.

In March clinched a,, mentally unstable '' man an EgyptAir plane to Cyprus. The incident sparked new concerns about safety. In October last year a Russian passenger plane over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula was blown up in flight by a bomb. On board were sat 224 people, mostly Russian tourists. A local branch of the Sunni terrorist group Islamic State claimed the bombing.