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French president confirms EgyptAir flight carrying 66 crashed in Mediterranean

An EgyptAir flight from Paris to Cairo collided with the Mediterranean on Thursday with 66 individuals on load up inciting an examination concerning whether it was mechanical disappointment or a bomb. There were no prompt reports of the disclosure of any flotsam and jetsam in the range of ocean between the Greek islands and the Egyptian coast where the plane vanished from radar screens. In any case, French President Francois Hollande affirmed that the plane had "smashed" and the Paris prosecutor s office said its mischance division had opened an examination. The plane fell 22,000 feet and swerved strongly in Egyptian airspace before it vanished from radar screens, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos told a news meeting. Egypt and Greece both said they had dispatched air ship and maritime vessels on an inquiry mission and they were relied upon to be joined by French groups. Fifteen French residents were among the 26 remote travelers on the EgyptAir flight, who additionally incorporated a Briton and a Canadian. Both France and Egypt have gone under assault by jihadists of the Islamic State bunch in the previous year and Hollande guaranteed a thorough examination concerning the reason for the accident as suspicions quickly centered around a bomb. (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({}); "We should guarantee that we know everything on the reasons for what happened. No theory is precluded or supported," he said in a broadcast address. "Whether it was a mishap or another theory that everybody has at the forefront of their thoughts - a terrorist speculation... at this stage we should concentrate on our solidarity with the families and the quest for the reasons for the fiasco." IS has been pursuing a savage revolt against Egyptian security strengths and last October guaranteed the besieging of a Russian carrier flying home holidaymakers from the Egyptian resort of Sharm El-Sheik, which killed each of the 224 individuals on load up. France prior assembled an emergency conference of top clergymen as Prime Minister Manuel Valls said "no hypothesis can be discounted" to clarify the plane s vanishing. EgyptAir said contact was lost with the flight around 280 kilometers (175 miles) north of the Egyptian coast. - No pain call - A Greek aeronautics source said the flight had vanished from Greek radar at around 0029 GMT. "It slammed around 130 nautical miles off the island of Karpathos," the source told AFP, alluding to an island upper east of Crete. Greek common aeronautics boss Constantinos Litzerakos said the pilot had specified no issue in the last correspondence before the plane vanished.
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