Egypt says exchanged ‘condolences’ with France over EgyptAir flight

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French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, flanked by French junior minister for Transport, Maritime Economy and Fishery Alain Vidalies (R), arrives to speak to journalists following a crisis meeting of top ministers at the Elysee Presidential palace in Paris, after an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar. Egyptian search teams combed the Mediterranean for signs of an EgyptAir flight that vanished from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19, 2016 with 66 people on board, the airline said. Twenty-six foreigners were among the 56 passengers, including 15 French citizens, a Briton and a Canadian, EgyptAir said. / AFP PHOTO / STEPHANE DE SAKUTIN
French Foreign minister Jean-Marc Ayrault, flanked by French junior minister for Transport, Maritime Economy and Fishery Alain Vidalies (R), arrives to speak to journalists following a crisis meeting of top ministers at the Elysee Presidential palace in Paris, after an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappeared from radar.
Egyptian search teams combed the Mediterranean for signs of an EgyptAir flight that vanished from radar screens en route from Paris to Cairo on May 19, 2016 with 66 people on board, the airline said. Twenty-six foreigners were among the 56 passengers, including 15 French citizens, a Briton and a Canadian, EgyptAir said. / AFP PHOTO /

CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — The French and Egyptian foreign ministers exchanged “condolences” over an EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo that is feared to have gone down in the Mediterranean on Thursday, Egypt said.

French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault “expressed condolences over the plane incident involving the EgyptAir airplane that went down, and Shoukry in turn expressed condolences for the French casualties who were on board the plane,” the Egyptian foreign ministry said.

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