Crash Egyptair: debris located off of Crete – The Cross

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Disappearance of EgyptAir flight from left Paris / AFP

aircraft debris, which could be those of the device EgyptAir which crashed Thursday in the Mediterranean sea with 66 people on board, have been discovered off the Greek island of Crete by an Egyptian plane, said the army and the Greek Ministry of Merchant marine.

“The objects were located in south-eastern Crete by Egyptian C-130, in an area of ​​elevated perspective depends Egypt. Boats will be sent there” to check what it is, initially told AFP the spokesman of the Greek army, Vassilis Beletsiotis.

“debris from an airplane have been located, c is what we told the Egyptian research coordination center “, for his part told AFP the press office of the Greek Ministry of Merchant Marine.

These remains were located 205 nautical miles south-west of Crete, and 190 nautical miles south of the island of Karpathos, “inside the Egyptian Air Control Zone “the source added.

The Greek authorities had located the suspected point of the fall of the aircraft to 130 nautical miles off the island of Karpathos in the east of Crete.

Greek ships and aircraft engaged in research in the area alongside Egyptian appliances, French and American.

The MS804 flying the flag carrier EgyptAir linking Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport in Cairo disappeared from radar at 2:45 Cairo time (0:45 GMT), while he was in the area of air traffic control (FIR) Egyptian, said the deputy chairman of EgyptAir.

According to the Greek authorities, the plane disappeared from radar screens about Greek 0:29 GMT as he left the Greek FIR and Egypt entered the FIR.

According Litzerakos Constantin, head of the Greek civil Aviation, the last contact with the pilot product “at about 0:05 UTC,” but then he stopped responding to calls of Greek air traffic controllers, which continued “until 0:29 GMT, when the plane disappeared from radar.”

According to the Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos, the aircraft “made a 90 degree turn to the left and 360 degrees to the right, falling 37,000 to 15,000 feet,” for 11000-4570 meters before disappearing from radar.

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