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Terrorist attack likely behind disappearance of EgyptAir flight: Egypt's civil aviation minister
The minister said that the 'possibility of a terror attack is higher than that of a technical error'
Lina El Wardani Published in Ahram Online on 19 - 05 - 2016

Egypt's civil aviation minister Sherif Fathytold reporters during a press conference on Thursday that the “possibility of a terror attack is higher than that of a technical error,” regarding the EgyptAir flight that went missing over the Mediterranean early this morning.
Answering an Ahram Online reporter's question on why he believes it was likely a terrorist attack rather than a technical error, Fathy said: "I said so based on what I read and from my expertise, but these remain assumptions and possible scenarios. I will still use the word ‘missing' till we find the debris."
Fathy said that the last contact with plane was at 2:30am Cairo time. Authorities tried to contact the flight again at 2:50am but there was no response.
He also said that Egypt will cooperate with French authorities to investigate the disappearance of the plane.
Fathy explained that the Airbus 320 plane could carry 145 passengers, though only 66 were on board, “including 30 Egyptians, 15 French, two Iraqis, one Briton, one Canadian, one Sudanese, one Chadian, one Portuguese, one Algerian, one Belgian, one Kuwaiti and one Saudi... in addition to 10 crew members.”
The civil aviation minister said authorities are hosting the relatives of passengers who were on the EgyptAir MS804 airliner.
"We immediately thought we should contact the families of the passengers, and we are hosting them at the airport here in Cairo and also at Paris' Charles De Gaulle," said Fathy.
He also said that families who are currently in France will be granted free tickets to Egypt so they are able to closely follow the matter.
During the presser, Fathy said that Egyptian forces are cooperating with Greek authorities in their search overt the Mediterranean Sea.
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