On Board were 56 people.
On the skin of the aircraft of Egypt Air, which crashed near the Greek island of Karpathos was scrawled the inscription, which translates from Arabic as “we just took the plane.”
The inscription on the skin of the aircraft scrawled two years ago, airport officials in Cairo. After that they were dismissed, and the security measures on the liner are reinforced. Instead of two representatives of the security service on Board was flying three. Edition (The New York Times) published the names of the three security personnel who were on Board the vessel during the execution of his last flight: Walid Ouda, Mohammed Faraj and Mohammed al Saeed. They were professionals and did not show any abnormalities in behavior before the flight, the report said.
Also the newspaper published the name of the second pilot of the A320 – it was 24-year-old Mohammed Mamdu Assam.
We will remind, the plane took off on Wednesday, may 18, from the Paris airport Charles-de-Gaulle. He was about to land in Cairo early Thursday morning. At 02:30 Egyptian time with the aircraft lost contact. The plane was nearly 300 kilometers from the coast of Egypt at the height of 11 thousands meters.
On Board were 56 people, among them – one child and two babies. On Board were 10 crew members. Among the passengers were 30 citizens of Egypt, 15 Frenchmen, two Iraqis and one citizen of great Britain, Belgium, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria and Canada.
According to the Egyptian Agency “al-Ahram”, a ship’s captain’s name is Mohammed Shokair, on account of his more than 6,000 flight hours.
The Minister of civil aviation of Egypt Fathi Sheriff has already stated that the cause of the accident could be a terrorist attack. At least that, in his opinion, it is more likely than “technical reasons”.
Aircraft SU-GCC in November 2003 was provided by EgyptAir directly from the Assembly line. The ship held in the air for about 48 thousand hours.
