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EgyptAir Flight 804
SU-GCC in 2011
Occurrence
Date19 May 2016 (2016-05-19)
SummaryCrashed; cause under investigation
SiteMediterranean Sea
33°40′33″N 28°47′33″E / 33.6757°N 28.7924°E / 33.6757; 28.7924[1]
Aircraft
Aircraft typeAirbus A320-232
OperatorEgyptAir
RegistrationSU-GCC
Flight originCharles de Gaulle Airport, Paris, France
DestinationCairo International Airport, Cairo, Egypt
Passengers56
Crew10
Fatalities1
Missing55

EgyptAir Flight 804 (MS804/MSR804)[a] was an international passenger flight from Paris Charles de Gaulle Airport to Cairo International Airport, operated by EgyptAir, that went missing over the Mediterranean Sea on 19 May 2016 at 02:30 Egypt Standard Time (UTC+2).[2][3]

Egyptian authorities announced the next day that wreckage of the aircraft was found approximately 290 km (180 mi) north of Alexandria, Egypt.[4]

There were 66 people on board: 56 passengers, seven aircrew, and three security personnel.[5] It is currently unknown if anyone survived. A multinational search and rescue operation is under way.[6][7][8]

According to Greek military radar data, Flight 804 veered off course shortly after entering the Egyptian Flight Information Region (FIR). At an altitude of 37,000 feet (11,000 metres), the aircraft made a 90-degree left turn, followed by a right about turn, and then began to descend sharply. Radar contact was lost at an altitude of about 10,000 ft (3,000 m).[9][10]

Aircraft

The aircraft involved was a 13-year-old Airbus A320-232,[b] registration SU-GCC, MSN 2088.[11] The aircraft made its first flight on 25 July 2003 and it was delivered to EgyptAir on 3 November 2003.[12]

Flight

Route of flight MS804 in green. The red star indicates where SU-GCC's ADS-B signal was lost, and the yellow line indicates its intended flightpath.

The aircraft departed for Cairo International Airport, from Charles de Gaulle Airport, on 18 May 2016 at 23:09 (all times refer to UTC+2, the time zone used by Egypt).[13][14][15]

It was flying at 37,000 ft (11,000 m) in clear weather when it disappeared 280 km (170 mi; 150 nmi) north of the Egyptian coast,[16] and about the same distance from the island of Kastellorizo, over the eastern Mediterranean on 19 May 2016 at 02:30.[2][17][18] The aircraft was lost 3 hours 25 minutes into the flight. No emergency call was received by air traffic control prior to the disappearance.[3]

The aircraft was due to land at 03:05. Though it was originally reported that a distress signal from emergency devices was detected by the Egyptian military at 04:26, two hours after the last radar contact, officials later retracted this statement.[19]

Panos Kammenos, the Greek Defence Minister, noted the aircraft changed heading 90 degrees to the left and then turned a full 360-degree circle to the right while it dropped from an altitude of 37,000 feet to 15,000 feet (4,600 m).[7][20]

Airbus, the manufacturer of the aircraft, released a statement on its Facebook page: "Airbus regrets to confirm that an A320 operated by EgyptAir was lost at around 02:30 (Egypt local time) today over the Mediterranean sea."[21]

Passengers and crew

People on board by citizenship[22]
Citizenship No.
 Algeria 1
Australia/UK[23] 1
 Belgium 1
 Canada 2[24][c]
 Chad 1
 Egypt 30
 France 15
 Iraq 2
 Kuwait 1
 Portugal 1
 Saudi Arabia 1
 Sudan 1
Crew 10
Some passengers had multiple citizenship.
Counts are based on preliminary data
and do not total 66.

Passengers

Fifty-six passengers from thirteen different countries were on board.[22] Three of the passengers were reported to be children, including two infants.[26] The count was confused by the multiple citizenship status of some people on board.[23]

Crew

Among the ten crew were three EgyptAir security personnel, five flight attendants, and two pilots.[27] According to EgyptAir, the captain had 6,275 hours of flying experience, including 2,101 hours on the A320, while the first officer had 2,766 hours.[7][28]

Search and rescue efforts

The Lockheed P-3C Orion that the United States had deployed to search for Flight 804

Egypt's president, Abdel Fattah el-Sisi, ordered the nation's navy, air force, army and the Civil Aviation Ministry to move out "all their resources" to find the aircraft’s wreckage.[29]

The Egyptian Civil Aviation ministry confirmed that search and rescue teams have been deployed to look for the missing aircraft. Search efforts are being carried out in coordination with Greek authorities. A spokesman for the Egyptian Civil Aviation Agency, has stated that the aircraft most likely crashed into the sea.[6] Greece sent a Lockheed C-130 Hercules, an Embraer EMB-145-H early warning aircraft and an Elli-class frigate to the area to participate in search and rescue efforts.[30] France is also sending ships and aircraft to assist with the search and rescue operation.[31][32] The United Kingdom sent the Royal Fleet Auxiliary ship RFA Lyme Bay to assist with search and rescue efforts.[33] The United States is providing a Lockheed P-3C Orion to assist in the search for the aircraft.[34]

On the day of the disaster, 19 May at 08:30, French President François Hollande met several of his ministers during an emergency meeting at the Élysée Palace.[35] A spokesman for the French foreign ministry said checks were being carried out but the ministry had no further information. The French aviation authority could not be reached immediately for comment.[36] A Dassault Falcon 50M maritime patrol aircraft from the French Navy's squadron 24F was deployed in the area where the Egyptian Airbus was presumed to have crashed into the sea.[32]

Later on 19 May, Egyptian authorities announced that wreckage believed to be that of the aircraft was found approximately 80 km (50 mi) southeast of the airliner's last known position, near the Greek island of Karpathos. However, this was disputed by Greece's lead air accident investigator, who said, "Up to now the analysis of the debris indicates that it does not come from a plane, my Egyptian counterpart also confirmed to me that it was not yet proven that the debris came from the EgyptAir flight when we were last in contact around 17:45 GMT."[37] EgyptAir officials subsequently retracted their claim that the wreckage of Flight 804 had been found.[38]

Greece's Ministry of National Defence is investigating the report of a merchant ship captain who claimed to have seen a "flame in the sky" some 240 km (130 nmi) south of the island of Karpathos.[7]

On 20 May, the Egyptian military found debris from the aircraft in the Mediterranean Sea, 290 kilometres (180 mi) off the coast of Alexandria, Egypt.[39]

Response

The Egyptian civil aviation ministry said that Flight 804 was probably attacked.[3][40] Two U.S. officials believed the aircraft was downed by a bomb,[41] and a senior official told NBC News that monitoring equipment focused on the area at the time detected evidence of an explosion on board the aircraft; however, other officials from multiple U.S agencies told Reuters they had seen no evidence of an explosion in satellite imagery.[42] Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) claimed the crash was, in all likelihood, a "terrorist" act.[28][43]

Some airports in California, including Los Angeles International Airport, took the precaution of tightening their security as a result of the crash.[44]

EgyptAir turned its social media accounts black to honour the victims. Their Twitter and Facebook logo has been changed from its normal blue and white to a black and white logo, with the background banner as a simple photo of grey clouds with the flight number: MS804 in black.[45]

See also

Notes

  1. ^ Abbreviated forms of the flight name combine the airline's IATA airline code (MS) or ICAO airline code (MSR) with the flight number.
  2. ^ The aircraft was an Airbus A320-200 model, also known as the A320ceo to distinguish it from the newer A320neo; the infix -32 specifies it was fitted with IAE V2527-A5 engines.
  3. ^ Includes one passenger with dual Egyptian–Canadian citizenship.[25]

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