Egypt Air flight MS804 crashed after disappearing

EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 66 passengers and crew on board has crashed say Egyptian Aviation officials.  In another Malaysia MH 370, an EgyptAir flight flying from Paris to Cairo with were 59 passengers and 10 crew aboard on board has vanished from radar. A tweet on the airline's official account said flight MS804 left Paris at 23:09 pm local time (2109 GMT), "heading to Cairo (and) has disappeared from radar".

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In another series of tweets Arabic said contact was lost at 02:45 Cairo time (0045 GMT), when the plane was just inside Egyptian airspace and at an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,000 metres).

 "EGYPTAIR has contacted the concerned authorities and bodies and inspection is underway through the rescue teams," another tweet in English said.

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