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EgyptAir Flight MS804 has disappeared with 59 56 passengers and 10 crew onboard. It went missing soon after it entered Egyptian airspace, over the eastern Mediterranean.
janrinok adds:
The Guardian has a page with updated details.
martyb summarizes:
Flight MS804, an Airbus A320, was on its fifth flight of the day and traveling at 37,000 feet. It left Paris Charles de Gaulle at 11:09pm local time (21:09 UTC/22:09 BST/07:09 AEST) en route to Cairo and disappeared from radar with 66 people on board at 2:30am (00:30 GMT/01:30 BST/10:30 AEST) approximately 280km (175 miles) north of Egypt's coast — about 45 minutes before it was scheduled to land.
Of the 66 people on board, there were 56 passengers and 10 crew (two cockpit, five cabin, three security).
At 4:26am local time (two hours after the last radar contact) a signal was received from the "plane's emergency devices — possibly an emergency locator transmitter or beacon."
"EgyptAir says the captain has 6,275 flying hours, including 2,101 on the A320; the copilot has 2,766. The plane was manufactured in 2003."
(Score: 2) by devlux on Thursday May 19 2016, @05:29AM
It wasn't meant as a troll. Sorry it really did sound like a repeat / dupe.
Further searching brought it out but it took digging. My condolences to the victims and their families.
(Score: 3, Informative) by takyon on Thursday May 19 2016, @05:44AM
Good luck recovering from tropical fever (you could always post from a phone, since you'll be bored in the hospital).
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(Score: 1, Informative) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @05:52AM
Further research? You mean clicking ANY of links in the summary?
Jesus...
(Score: -1, Flamebait) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 19 2016, @05:54AM
Just shut the fuck up. Plane is missing, and we don't know what happened yet.