20 May 2016

More on the EgyptAir crash: debris found

The BBC has another article about Flight 804:

Debris and body parts have been found in the Mediterranean by teams searching for a doomed EgyptAir plane, according to Greek and Egyptian officials.
Flight MS804 was en route from Paris, France to Cairo, Egypt with 66 passengers and crew when it crashed early on Thursday. Items, including seats and luggage, have also been retrieved by Egyptian search crews. The debris was discovered about two hundred miles north of Alexandria, Egypt, according to the Egyptian military.
European Space Agency satellites spotted an oil slick in the area where the flight went missing, but the organization said there was no guarantee it was from the plane.
The search is now focused on finding the plane's flight recorders, according to The Associated Press. There were smoke alerts from the onboard toilet and the plane's electrics shortly before the signal was lost, according to data published on air industry website the Aviation Herald. However, there has been no independent confirmation.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi has expressed his "utmost sadness and regret" at the crash.
Greek, Egyptian, French, and British military units have been taking part in a search operation near Greece's Karpathos island.
Greece said radar showed the Airbus A320 had made two sharp turns and dropped more than twenty-five thousand feet before plunging into the sea.
Egypt says the plane was more likely to have been brought down by a terrorist act than a technical fault. However, there has been "absolutely no indication" so far as to why the plane came down, French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault said on Friday morning.
Three investigators from the French air accident investigation bureau, along with a technical adviser from Airbus, have joined the Egyptian inquiry.
The BBC has learned the plane that disappeared was forced to make an emergency landing in 2013 after the pilot noticed the engine overheating, but an official report said the defect had been repaired.
In France, the focus is on whether a possible breach of security happened at Charles de Gaulle airport in Paris. After last November's Paris attacks, some airport staff had their security clearances revoked over fears of links to Islamic extremists. Eric Moutet, a lawyer for some of those employees, told the BBC that there had been attempts by Islamists to recruit airport staff. "That is clear," he said. "There are people who are being radicalized in some of the trade unions, etc. The authorities have their work cut out with this problem."
In October of 2015, an Airbus A321 operated by Russia's Metrojet blew up over Egypt's Sinai Peninsula, with all 224 people on board killed. Sinai Province, a local affiliate of the jihadist group Islamic State, said it had smuggled a bomb on board.
Flight MS804 left Paris, France at 2309 local time on Wednesday and was scheduled to arrive in the Egyptian capital soon after 0315 local time on Thursday.
On the plane were 56 passengers, seven crew members and three security personnel.
Greek aviation officials say air traffic controllers spoke to the pilot when he entered Greek airspace and everything appeared normal. They tried to contact him again at 0227 Cairo time, as the plane was set to enter Egyptian airspace, but "despite repeated calls, the aircraft did not respond". Two minutes later, it vanished from radar.
Philip Baum, the editor of Aviation Security International Magazine, said given that smoke was detected on board shortly before the crash it was unlikely to be a hijacking.
"It's more likely a fire," he told the BBC. "Now whether that was a technical fire, a short circuit, or whether it was because a bomb went off on board, we don't know." 
Passengers' nationalities
Sixty-six people were on board; fifty-six passengers, seven crew members, and three security personnel, consisting of thirty Egyptians, fifteen French citizens, two Iraqis, and one each from Britain, Canada, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Algeria, Sudan, Chad, and Portugal.
Those on board included:
Richard Osman, a forty-year-old geologist and father of two from Wales; Canadian national Marwa Hamdy, a mother-of-three and an executive with IBM, originally from Saskatchewan, Canada, but who had relocated to Cairo; Pascal Hess, a photographer from Normandy in France, who had lost his passport last week, only for it to be found in the street, allowing him to catch the flight; an unnamed couple in their forties from Angers in north-west France, as well as their two children; Ahmed Helal, the Egyptian-born manager of a Procter & Gamble plant in Amiens in northern France.
Rico says this shit isn't gonna stop until the Muslims get tired of ISIS killing them...

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