An EgyptAir flight en route to Cairo from Paris disappeared from radar over the Mediterranean Sea about 174 miles from the Egyptian coast, shortly after entering Egyptian airpsace, the airline said Wednesday night.
According to the airline, 56 passengers, 3 EgyptAir security personnel and 7 crew members were onboard the aircraft, an Airbus A320 manufactured in 2003.
EgyptAir flight 804's 56 passengers included one child and two infants, the airline said.
There were no Americans onboard, according to the airline.
The nationalities of those onboard is as follows: French: 15, Egyptian: 30, British: 1, Belgium: 1, Iraqi: 2, Kuwaiti: 1, Saudi: 1, Sudanese: 1, Chadian: 1, Portuguese: 1, Algerian: 1, Canadian: 1.
EgyptAir flight 804 left Paris Charles De Gaulle Airport at 11:09 p.m. It lost contact with the radar tracking system over the Mediterranean Sea at 2:45 a.m. at 37,000 feet, after entering Egyptian airspace, the airline said. The flight was expected to arrive at 3:15 a.m.(Both France and Egypt are in the same time zone.)
A Greek National Defense spokesman tells ABC News that Greek air traffic control lost contact with the flight as it was entering Egyptian airspace at 3:40 a.m. Athens Time (1 hour ahead of Paris and Cairo time), and alerted the Egyptian authorities.
Ihab Raslan, a spokesman for the Egyptian civil aviation authority, told SkyNews Arabia that the plane most likely crashed into the sea, according to The Associated Press.