Egypt Air flight MS804 missing!
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So the usual smudged data coming out of Egypt They don't do themselves any favours, do they?
http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/05/19/egypt-air-flig...
Apart from which, Twitter? Really? Is that the most appropriate way to inform people that their friends and loved ones are presumably dead? Maybe I'm just getting old.
RIP to those on board.
http://www.ft.com/fastft/2016/05/19/egypt-air-flig...
Apart from which, Twitter? Really? Is that the most appropriate way to inform people that their friends and loved ones are presumably dead? Maybe I'm just getting old.
RIP to those on board.
Mansells Tash said:
Interestingly though it was coming from a major international airport with proper safe guards. I think there is only one outcome here, the why is something that'll obviously be a while to establish.
Assuming it flew out of Egypt, perhaps it (whatever that was) was stowed on the outbound flight. Assuming not a tragic accident.Edit:
According to @flightradar24, A320 SU-GCC visited Tunis & Asmara in Eritrea on May 18 before flying the return from Paris to Cairo. #MS804
Edited by worsy on Thursday 19th May 07:08
essayer said:
Did that disappear just at the start of descent?
Looking at the data it disappeared at 36975 feet(01:29am). Prior to that 01:28 36975ft
01:27 37000ft
01:25 36975ft
https://www.flightradar24.com/data/flights/ms804/#...
Still cruising.
from telegraph:
An official in Egyptair said Egyptian said that Military search and rescue operations have received an SOS message from the plane emergency devices at 4:26 am Cairo time (3.36am London time).
The statement said that the Egyptian military sent some planes and navy units to search for the plane, and that the Greece has sent some planes with coordination with Egypt.
A defence ministry source said authorities were also investigating an account from the captain of a merchant ship who reported a "flame in the sky" some 130 nautical miles south of the island of Karpathos.
From the Guardian
EgyptAir says that the plane’s emergency devices (possibly an emergency locator transmitter or beacon) sent a distress signal that was received at 4.26am, some two hours after the previously stated last radar contact.
An official in Egyptair said Egyptian said that Military search and rescue operations have received an SOS message from the plane emergency devices at 4:26 am Cairo time (3.36am London time).
The statement said that the Egyptian military sent some planes and navy units to search for the plane, and that the Greece has sent some planes with coordination with Egypt.
A defence ministry source said authorities were also investigating an account from the captain of a merchant ship who reported a "flame in the sky" some 130 nautical miles south of the island of Karpathos.
From the Guardian
EgyptAir says that the plane’s emergency devices (possibly an emergency locator transmitter or beacon) sent a distress signal that was received at 4.26am, some two hours after the previously stated last radar contact.
Edited by tescorank on Thursday 19th May 07:36
essayer said:
Looks like it disappeared approx 3h35 into the flight - looking at previous tracks for that flight, descent started after about the same time.. Some event triggered by reducing height perhaps, not many of those I can think of
Looking at the previous day, descent was approx 30 mins after passing the west coast of Cyprus. The flight today was late (r) and was only 15 mins past Cyprus.00.48 @ Cyprus on the 18th
Descent @ 01:18
Today it went past Cyprus at 01:14 and lost contact @ 01:29
Day before matches that as well.
Looking at takeoff, today's flight was 25 mins later.
Edited by worsy on Thursday 19th May 20:00
s p a c e m a n said:
Curious as to if it were something on board why would they wait until 3 hours into the flight?
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