Findings there is a piece of wood, as well as “some other material”.
Found in the Mediterranean sea, the wreckage does not belong to the aircraft company Egypt Air, which disappeared from radar yesterday, may 19. This was stated by the head of the Greek Committee for air safety Athanassios Binis.
The plane took off on Wednesday 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 name of the second pilot is still unknown.
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”.
He said he doesn’t want to draw conclusions, but this is the point of analysis of terrorism as a cause with a higher probability.
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.
