CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — Egyptian forensics officials collected DNA Tuesday from relatives of EgyptAir MS804 victims to help identify body parts retrieved from the Mediterranean, where the crash killed 66 people, the airline said. Investigators are still searching for Airbus A320’s two black boxes on the seabed as they seek answers as to why the aircraft came down early on Thursday. “Body parts arrived at the morgue yesterday and other body parts arrived the day […]
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Human remains, belongings found from EgyptAir crash at sea
(REUTERS) Egypt said on Friday its navy had found human remains, wreckage and the personal belongings of passengers floating in the Mediterranean, the first confirmation that an EgyptAir jet with 66 people on board had plunged into the sea. Unconfirmed reports about flight data from the Airbus plane that disappeared while flying from Paris to Cairo in the early hours of Thursday local time pointed to several problems that its veteran pilot may have […]
EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo disappears from radar: airline
CAIRO, Egypt (AFP) — An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo with 69 people on board has vanished from radar, the airline said on its verified Twitter feed Thursday. 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”. Further tweets in Arabic said contact was lost at 02:45 Cairo time (0045 GMT), when the plane was just […]





