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EgyptAir Flight 804: Search for missing plane enters second day

10:45, Friday, 20 May, 2016
EgyptAir Flight 804: Search for missing plane enters second day

The search for EgyptAir Flight 804 entered a second day Friday after the jetliner vanished over the Mediterranean with 66 people aboard.

The plane was carrying 56 passengers and 10 crew members when it left Paris' Charles de Gaulle Airport for Cairo on Wednesday night.
     The Airbus A320 disappeared early Thursday as it flew to Cairo -- what should have been about a 3½-hour flight.
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     Authorities said it likely crashed into the sea, but the reason why remains unclear. Weather conditions were clear at the time.
     The airplane "swerved and then plunged" before descending into the Mediterranean, Greek Defense Minister Panos Kammenos said.

The airline's Vice Chairman Ahmed Adel said the plane's wreckage had been found at sea, but those reports turned out to be false.
     When searchers got close to the debris bobbing in the sea, they realized it was not from the missing airliner, he said Thursday.
     "We stand corrected on finding the wreckage because what we identified is not a part of our plane," Adel told CNN. "So the search and rescue is still going on."

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