On Thursday morning, it became known that a passenger airliner EgyptAir Airlines flight Paris-Cairo, disappeared from the radar. This happened 20 minutes after the plane entered the airspace of Greece. To his quest emergency operations staff has been created.
The plane took off from Paris Charles de Gaulle airport in the capital of Egypt, on the night of 19 May. On board were 66 people -. 56 passengers and 10 crew members
The Egyptian Ministry of Aviation announced that EgyptAir liner board were 30 Egyptians and 15 French. Also in the plane were flying:. One citizen of the United Kingdom, one from Belgium, two citizen Iraq and one citizen of Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, Chad, Portugal, Algeria and Canada
According to the agency, the relationship with airliner was lost at 2.30 am (3.30 MSK), when the plane was over the Mediterranean sea, 280 km from the Egyptian shore.
Aviation officials in Egypt said that the plane supposedly crashed into the sea.
Later the media reported that in 2013, due to a technical fault the plane made an emergency landing. Told satellite channel SkyNews Arabia, citing sources in minaviatsii Egypt.
Presumably, the problem has been fixed in one of the engines of the aircraft in 2013. Then, the plane made an emergency landing at Cairo airport. He was heading to Istanbul, but was forced to return. Experts have fixed the overheating of one of the engines.
Meanwhile, EgyptAir own airline while rejecting all possible versions of the emergency.
Also, the Egyptian military denied reports that they received a distress signal from the missing aircraft Airbus A320 airline EgyptAir.
The French Foreign Ministry said that the government would send planes and ships to the place of the alleged collapse of the liner.
Meanwhile, a source at the Greek airport said the plane crashed near the Greek island . Karpathos
“EgyptAir plane crashed off the Greek island of Karpathos in the airspace of Egypt” – quoted him as saying AFP
However, this information is not confirmed by the General Staff of Greece.. The ministry said they expected information from the Coast Guard
Links:
Press Digest for May 19, 2016 |. Digest Publications for May 19, 2016 <-! Origin_id = 1 ->
The copyright in this material belong to the “Izvestia” newspaper. The purpose of the inclusion of the material in the digest – gathering the maximum number of publications in the media and communications companies, on aviation subjects. Agency “AviaPort” does not guarantee the authenticity, accuracy, completeness or quality of the material.
No comments:
Post a Comment